Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Movie Falls Off Big at Box Office in Second Week

Beyoncé‘s reign as queen of the field workplace rapidly got here to an finish this weekend, ‘trigger she fell from the highest spot … and slipped all the best way right down to #5, marking an enormous drop-off.

The singer’s ‘Renaissance’ live performance movie endured a 77% collapse domestically, coming in fifth place behind a handful of films which were in theaters for some time … and shedding out to a stunning newcomer claiming #1 — an anime movie from the nice Hayao Miyazaki.

In fact, we’re referring to ‘The Boy and the Heron,’ which snagged $12.8 million by way of Sunday. Clearly, that is not an enormous quantity, which makes Bey’s haul much more surprising.

‘Renaissance’ made solely $5 million domestically this weekend … fairly completely different from final weekend’s excessive mark of $21 million in North American markets. Whereas that preliminary determine was strong, for positive, it did not evaluate to Taylor Swift’s opening weekend for the ‘Eras’ flick.

Bear in mind, Taylor’s live performance film made $92 mil in its opening weekend … after which skilled a couple of 65% drop-off the following week, with $33 mil — however it remained the top-grossing film on the time, beating out Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon.’ In fact, the movie went on to keep up a stronghold on the field workplace for a number of weeks thereafter.

The opposite movies that got here forward of Bey’s flick this week … ‘Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ (#2), ‘Godzilla Minus One’ (#3) and ‘Trolls Band Collectively’ (#4).