Taylor Swift will top the box office this weekend with an impressive opening. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, the concert film of her 2023 tour that has taken the United States by storm and cemented Swift’s status as an icon, entered theaters on Friday to the tune of $39 million, according to AMC, which is distributing the film. That is the second-biggest October opening day of all time, beating Venom: Let There Be Carnage‘s $37.4 million debut (and coming just behind Joker‘s $39.3 The film’s first weekend numbers are still difficult to pin down, but it is hovering around the $100 million mark, expected to land somewhere between $90 million and $110 million when the dust settles.
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The Exorcist: Believer will spend its second weekend in second place. The film earned $3.8 million on Friday and will likely gross $11 million over the weekend, bringing its box office total to $44.9 million.
Paw Patrol: The Might Movie lands in third and is expected to add $5.7 to its cume in its third weekend, bringing its total to $48.5 million. Saw X will earn around $5-5.5 million in its fourth weekend, bringing its box office total to an estimated $41 million. The Creator rounds out the top 5 with $3.3 million, its total climbing to $31.3 million.
These films are all playing now at the box office. The list of the top 10 films at the box office this weekendfollows.
1. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
- Opening Weekend
- Total: $90 million
The cultural phenomenon continues as pop icon Taylor Swift performs hit songs in a once-in-a-lifetime concert experience.
2. The Exorcist: Believer
- Week Two
- Weekend: $11 million
- Total: $$44.9 million
When his daughter, Angela, and her friend Katherine, show signs of demonic possession, it unleashes a chain of events that forces single father Victor Fielding to confront the nadir of evil. Terrified and desperate, he seeks out Chris MacNeil, the only person alive who’s witnessed anything like it before.
David Gordon Green directed The Exorcist: Believer and co-wrote its screenplay with Peter Sattler, based on a story he developed with Scott Teems and Danny McBride. It stars Leslie Odom Jr., Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Lidya Jewett, Olivia Marcum, Ellen Burstyn, and Linda Blair.
3. Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
- Week Three
- Weekend: $6.1 million
- Total: $48.9 million
The PAW Patrol pups magically gain superpowers after a meteor strikes Adventure City. However, things take a turn for the worse when Humdinger and a mad scientist steal their powers and turn themselves into supervillains. As the team springs into action to save the city, Skye soon learns that even the smallest pup can make the biggest difference.
Cal Brunker directed PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie and co-wrote the screenplay with Bob Barlen. The film’s voice cast includes Christian Corrao, Luxton Handspiker, Callum Shoniker, Ron Pardo, Mckenna Grace, Taraji P. Henson, Marsai Martin, Christian Convery, Kim Kardashian, North West, Saint West, James Marsden, Kristen Bell, and Finn Lee-Epp.
4. Saw X
- Week Three
- Weekend: $5.7 million
- Total: $41.4 million
Hoping for a miraculous cure, John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure, only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer uses deranged and ingenious traps to turn the tables on the con artists.
Kevin Greutert directed Saw X from a screenplay by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger. It stars Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund, Steven Brand, Renata Vaca, and Michael Beach.
5. The Creator
- Week Three
- Weekend: $4 million
- Total: $32.1 million
As a future war between the human race and artificial intelligence rages on, ex-special forces agent Joshua is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI. The Creator has developed a mysterious weapon that has the power to end the war and all of mankind. As Joshua and his team of elite operatives venture into enemy-occupied territory, they soon discover the world-ending weapon is actually an AI in the form of a young child.
Gareth Edwards directed The Creator and co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Weitz. It stars John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, Allison Janney, and Madeleine Yuna Voyles.
6. A Haunting In Venice
- Week Four
- Weekend: $2 million
- Total: $38.6 million
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a murder while attending a Halloween seance at a haunted palazzo in Venice, Italy.
Kenneth Branagh directed A Haunting in Venice from a screenplay by Michael Green, based on Agatha Christie’s 1969 novel Hallowe’en Party. The film stars Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly, Riccardo Scamarcio, and Michelle Yeoh.
7. The Blind
- Week Two
- Weekend: $1.69 million
- Total: $13.6 million
Long before Phil Robertson was a reality TV star, he fell in love, started a family, and began to spiral out of control. The Blind shares never-before-revealed moments in Phil’s life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place.
Andrew Hyatt directed The Blind from a screenplay he co-wrote with Stephanie Katz. The film stars Aron Von Andrian, Amelia Eve, Connor Tillman, Emily DeForest, John Ales, Aaron Dalla Villa, Brielle Robillard, and Matthew Erick White.
8. The Nun II
- Week Six
- Weekend: $2 million
- Total: $83.8 million
In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.
Michael Chaves directed The Nun II from a screenplay by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and Akela Cooper, based on a story by Cooper. It stars Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons, Storm Reid, and Anna Popplewell.
9. The Equalizer 3
- Week Seven
- Weekend: $920,000
- Total: $90.5 million
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall finds solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Now living in Southern Italy, he soon discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall becomes their protector by taking on the mafia.
Antoine Fuqua directed The Equalizer 3, the final installment of the film trilogy inspired by the 1985 The Equalizer television series. It stars Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman, Sonia Ammar, and Remo Girone.
10. Dumb Money
- Week Five
- Weekend: $823,000
- Total: $12.5 million
Everyday people flip the script on Wall Street and get rich by turning GameStop into one of the world’s hottest companies. In the middle of everything is Keith Gill, a regular guy who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock. When his social media posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets wealthy — until the billionaires fight back and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
Craig Gillespie directed Dumb Money from a screenplay by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, based on the 2021 book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich. The film stars Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen.
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