‘Alien: Romulus’ To Continue Face-Hug Of Box Office Despite Three Wide Entries As Summer Slows Down

Disney is expected to own No. 1 for the ninth time this summer, the likelihood that their 20th Century Studios’ Alien: Romulus will have the upper tail above Deadpool & Wolverine‘s fifth weekend, $18M to $17M. Through Tuesday, the Fede Alvarez directed Alien: Romulus counts a running box office of $50.6M.

It Ends With Us, from Sony/Wayfarer Studios, will become Blake Lively’s highest grossing movie at the domestic box office stateside, overtaking Green Lantern ($116.6M) — we’re not counting her secret cameo in D&W. That Justin Baldoni directed, and starring romance drama set to do around $13M.

These holdovers will prevail over three studio wide entries, all of which are expected to file in the single digits. What about the overindexing of the summer? Won’t that prevail here against what tracking is seeing? No, because it’s late August, and many are in return-to-school mode. Comscore reports that 33% K-12 are on break while colleges are 58% out.

Amazon MGM Studios’ has the Zoe Kravitz directed thriller, Blink Twice, starring Channing Tatum, but it’s not suppose to do Tatum-sized opening numbers (double-digits plus). The movie, previously greenlit by the Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy MGM administration.

Tatum plays tech billionaire Slater King who meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie), falls head over heels and invites her to his private island. However, it’s not paradise as Frida begins to question her reality. There is something wrong with this place. She’ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive. Pic also stars Alia Shawkat, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis. Kravitz also produced and co-wrote. Good news: Critics like the movie at 80% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Lionsgate has the reboot of The Crow starring IT and John Wick: Chapter 4 star Bill Skarsgård, but it’s going to do less ($6M-$9M) than the original 1994 Brandon Lee movie which opened to $11.7M. Pic is booked at 2,500 locations. Rupert Sanders directs based on the original graphic novel by James O’Barr.

Blurb: Soulmates Eric (Skarsgård) and Shelly (FKA Twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.

Movie was produced by Edward R. Pressman, Molly Hassell, Victor Hadida, John Jencks, and Samuel Hadida. The movie previously was scheduled to open on June 7 before Bad Boys: Ride or Die took over that spot.

Sony has the faith-based Alex Kendrick directed movie The Forge in roughly 1700 theaters. Pic follows Isaiah, who receives a push to start making better life decisions after graduating from high school without any plans for the future.