There was finally a little movement at the top of the Friday box office.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has been awfully hard to catch lately, but Insidious: Out of the Further managed it Friday. The newest Insidious movie finished the day at No. 1, although Spider-Man may not be giving up that spot for the entire weekend.
And the race was actually pretty close.
Insidious: Out of the Further made $10.6 million Friday from 3,303 theaters in North America. Spider-Man: Brand New Day was right behind it with $9.8 million.
That’s a fun Friday win for Insidious. By Sunday, though, the order is expected to flip.
Variety reports that the new Insidious is heading toward a $23.7 million opening weekend. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is looking at roughly $36.5 million for the same three-day stretch.
So Spider-Man lost Friday by less than $1 million and may still win the weekend by a pretty comfortable margin.
Friday box office gives Insidious: Out of the Further a strong start
There’s no getting around the fact that this opening is smaller than the one for Insidious: The Red Door.
That movie arrived with $33 million in 2023. If Out of the Further lands around $23.7 million, we’re talking about a noticeable drop from the previous film.
Still, horror plays by a slightly different set of rules.
Insidious: Out of the Further reportedly cost about $18 million to produce. That’s a long way from the kind of budget attached to many of the summer’s biggest movies, and it gives the film some room to work with.
The opening weekend alone should come in above that production figure domestically. Of course, that doesn’t suddenly make every dollar profit. Marketing, theater revenue splits and plenty of other expenses come into the equation.
But as starts go, this one isn’t bad.
The sixth Insidious movie introduces a young mother who discovers she can travel into the Further. That’s already not the sort of ability anyone in this franchise should be excited about. It gets worse when she learns that whatever is waiting for her there can make the trip back, too.
Jacob Chase directed the movie.
Lin Shaye is once again part of the Insidious world, with Amelia Eve, Island Austin, Sam Spruell, Joseph Lopez, Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Brandon Perea joining her.
Friday box office keeps Spider-Man: Brand New Day in the fight
It’s probably best not to read too much into Spider-Man finishing second for one day.
A $9.8 million Friday this late into the run of Spider-Man: Brand New Day is hardly a bad result. In fact, the movie is still expected to have the biggest weekend of anything currently playing.
Its projected $36.5 million weekend would be about 47% below last weekend.
More interesting is where that leaves the movie overall.
If the estimates hold, Spider-Man: Brand New Day should be sitting at approximately $852 million domestically by Sunday.
That’s the number that puts Friday’s second-place finish into perspective.
Insidious got Spider-Man for a night. Spider-Man has already spent its run putting together one of the year’s biggest domestic totals.
Mutiny has a slower start for Jason Statham
Jason Statham also has a new movie in theaters this weekend.
Mutiny opened Friday with $2.8 million from 2,703 locations, good enough for fourth place. Its full weekend is currently estimated at about $7.4 million.
That’s not quite where some of Statham’s other recent action movies started.
The Beekeeper opened with $16.5 million in 2024. A year later, A Working Man started with $15 million.
The new movie is doing better than Shelter, though. That one opened to $5.2 million earlier this year.
In Mutiny, Statham plays Cole Reed, a special-ops agent who ends up in the middle of an international conspiracy aboard a cargo ship.
Jean-François Richet directed the film, and Annabelle Wallis, Chaneil Kular, Ramon Tikaram, Jason Wong and Simon Kluth are also in the cast.
The Odyssey still has plenty left in the tank
Meanwhile, The Odyssey just keeps going.
The Christopher Nolan epic earned $5 million Friday and took third place. That’s after six weekends in theaters, which makes its continued position near the top of the box office even more impressive.
The movie is expected to bring in another $18 million by Sunday.
That would lift its domestic total to roughly $538 million.
Not much drama there. It’s simply another very good weekend for a movie that has already been around for more than a month.
The End of Oak Street finished fifth Friday with around $2.2 million.
Its second weekend is tracking toward approximately $8 million, down about 62% from its opening. That would leave the prehistoric thriller with about $37 million domestically.
The Friday box office headline, however, belongs to Insidious: Out of the Further.
For one night, the Further was powerful enough to knock Spider-Man out of first place.
Come Sunday, we’ll find out whether Spider-Man lets it stay there.
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