‘Obsession’ Did Something at the Box Office That Hasn’t Been Done Since… ‘Sound of Freedom’
Curry Barker's film 'Obsession' has achieved a remarkable box office feat by increasing its earnings in the second weekend. It made $23.9 million, a 39 percent rise from its first weekend, making it the only wide-release horror movie to accomplish this. The film has grossed $68.3 million worldwide to date.
- ▪Obsession made $17.1 million in its first weekend and $23.9 million in its second weekend.
- ▪This represents a 39 percent increase, which is unprecedented for a wide-release horror film.
- ▪The film has earned a total of $68.3 million globally.
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What Curry Barker’s “Obsession” has done at the box office this weekend is largely unprecedented. After a highly impressive first weekend in which it made $17.1 million, it did something that virtually no movies — in any genre — have been able to accomplish, which is that it not only did better in its second weekend, it made $23.9 million, which is a 39 percent increase week-over-week. Jason Blum, the producer of “Obsession” via Blumhouse, said on Twitter that it’s the “ONLY” wide-release horror movie on record to go up by such a margin. “This doesn’t happen in horror,” he wrote, and he would know a thing or two about small-budgeted horror movies with no stars that have done gangbusters surprises at the box office.
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