“The Haunted Mansion” earned $3.1 million in Thursday previews and is expected to gross $25-$30 million in its opening weekend. The film carries an oversized price tag of $150 million.
The kid-friendly horror film made $3.1 million in Thursday previews at the box office. “Barbie,” meanwhile, made $21.2 million on Thursday alone, bringing its domestic total after its first week to $258 million; “Oppenheimer” made $10 million on Thursday and has a $127 million first-week total.
Directed by Justin Simien, who made “Dear White People” and the horror comedy “Bad Hair,” “The Haunted Mansion” is the latest movie inspired by a Disneyland theme park ride . “The Haunted Mansion” is expected to make $25 million to $30 million in its opening weekend, but it carries an oversized price tag of $150 million before marketing. That may come to haunt its path to profitability at the box office.
Coming 20 years after Eddie Murphy’s “Haunted Mansion,” the new film features a scary good cast with LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Rosario Dawson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Jared Leto and more. After a mother and her son move into the titular haunted mansion, they unsurprisingly encounter a variety of ghosts, ghouls and ghastly creatures. To exterminate the evil entities, they enlist the help of a paranormal tour guide , a priest , a psychic and a college historian .
The real winners this weekend will be “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” which are both projected to make huge second weekends. Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s ultra-pink comedy is expected to repeat as No. 1 with between $65 million and $85 million, after it earned the highest opening weekend of the year last week. Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy’s atomic bomb drama should gain $35 million to $45 million.
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