It was feast, not famine for “The Starvation Video games” prequel.
“The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” earned $19.1 million on Friday, its first night time in theaters, in accordance with Deadline.
The Submit stated the dystopian motion movie, which is predicted to take pleasure in a $30-million opening weekend, leaves viewers “hungry for a meatier conclusion.”
“Trolls Band Collectively” which Deadline praised as a “cute psychedelic pop satire,” got here in second, raking in near $9.four million.
The animated musical comedy, additionally in its theatrical debut Friday, options the voices of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, RuPaul and Amy Schumer.
The slasher film “Thanksgiving,” which additionally premiered on Friday, landed in third, with simply over $3.eight million in gross sales.
Rolling Stone known as it a “lazy horror movie that strains to be merely mediocre” and stated it “can go stuff itself.”
“The Marvels,” which was within the No.1 spot final week, fell right down to fourth, incomes $2.eight million. This made Marvel Cinematic Universe movie historical past as its second-largest second-weekend plunge after this 12 months’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”
“Subsequent Objective Wins,” which stars Michael Fassbender, took house fifth, with $1.1 million in gross sales.
The comedy-drama is predicated on the story of a coach’s efforts to steer the American Samoa nationwide soccer staff, one of many world’s worst, to qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.