{"id":141135,"date":"2022-11-27T19:12:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/box-office-netflixs-knives-out-2-earns-15-million\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T19:12:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T19:12:44","slug":"box-office-netflixs-knives-out-2-earns-15-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/box-office-netflixs-knives-out-2-earns-15-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: Netflix’s ‘Knives Out 2’ Earns $15 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tNetflix is \u200b\u200bstaying tight-lipped about the box office performance of \u201cGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.\u201d However, sources speculate the well-reviewed whodunit scored in its special theatrical release, earning as much as $15 million during its week-long run in roughly 600 theaters.<\/p>\n

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\tBased on informed estimates, the sequel to 2019’s \u201cKnives Out\u201d brought in $13 million over the extended Thanksgiving holiday frame, translating to a robust $19,000 per-theater-average. More than $9 million of that figure came over the weekend. That means \u201cGlass Onion\u201d would have placed third on domestic box office charts, following \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d (which grossed $65 million from 4,258 cinemas over the five days) and Disney’s \u201cStrange World\u201d (which grossed $18.5 million from 4,174 cinemas over the five days), had Netflix actually reported box office figures. And those films were playing in six times as many theaters.<\/p>\n

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\tNetflix declined to comment for this article. Some rival studios pegged Netflix’s results as slightly lower at $12 million for the five-day holiday. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cGlass Onion\u201d \u2014 which brings back Daniel Craig’s quirky sleuth Benoit Blanc and adds a motley crew of starry suspects, like Edward Norton, Janelle Mon\u00e1e, Kathryn Hahn and Kate Hudson, to the fun \u2014 is also notable as the first Netflix movie to play in the country’s three biggest chains \u2014 AMC Theaters, Regal Cinemas and Cinemark. The third-largest circuit, Cinemark, has offered at least 10 Netflix films in recent months, but AMC and Regal previously refused because the streamer would not agree to the standard theatrical window. \u201cGlass Onion\u201d won’t be available on Netflix until Dec. 23.<\/p>\n

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\tPrivately, theater owners wish that Netflix granted \u201cGlass Onion\u201d a longer theatrical window because it’s the rare crowdpleaser that doesn’t require superheroes or explosive stunts to appeal to audiences young and old. It doesn’t take a detective like Benoit Blanc to figure out that \u201cGlass Onion\u201d would have made a killing in theaters if it were able to screen in more locations and play for longer than a week.<\/p>\n

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\tThe first movie, which Lionsgate released in theaters in 2019, opened to $26 million over the Thanksgiving weekend. \u201cKnives Out\u201d continued to slay on the big screen, eventually earning $165 million in North America and $311 million worldwide, providing much-needed optimism for the state of mid-budget original fare at the box office.<\/p>\n

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\tNetflix paid handsomely for the rights to the \u201cKnives Out\u201d series, forking over $450 million for the right to make the second and third installations. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n