{"id":486251,"date":"2026-05-15T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/486251\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:00:14","slug":"box-office-obsession-makes-2-6m-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/486251\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: ‘Obsession’ Makes $2.6M In Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCurry Barker\u2019s romantic horror movie Obsession<\/a>, which Focus Features\/Blumhouse\u2019s picked up for $15M+<\/a>, has grossed $2.6M in previews between Thursday night and Wednesday shows.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow get this, that number is higher than the previews for Paramount\u2019s Smile, which were $2M, but that movie opened to $22.6M. It remains to be seen whether Obsession plays to that level. The pic\u2019s comps are indie horror movies like A24\u2019s Heretic and Talk to Me, and Obsession already has beaten those pics\u2019 Friday previews, which were $1.2M apiece. Heretic opened to $10.8M and Talk to Me to $10.4M.<\/p>\n

\n\tHeading into this weekend, literally as of Thursday, it was expected to be a faceoff<\/a> between the fourth weekend of Lionsgate\u2019s Michael<\/a> and the third weekend of The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a> with about $20M+ each. We\u2019ll see if Obsession upsets. As we told you Thursday, the Barker film about a toxic relationship is winning critics and audiences over at 95% each on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n

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\n\tYouTube filmmaker-turned-big-screen filmmaker Barker\u2019s Obsession is booked at 2,542\u00a0locations, which includes 435 PLF screens.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon isn\u2019t reporting grosses to its drama Is God Is, nor is Black Bear with its Guy Ritchie movie In the Grey. They are expected to open to around $3M and $4M+, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s how the week went own at the B.O.:<\/p>\n

\n\t1) The Devil Wears Prada 2 (Dis) 4,200 theaters, Wk $55.9M (-45%), Total $157.7M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\t2) Michael (LG) 3,550 theaters, Wk $52.6M (-29%), Total $256.6M\/Wk 3
Note that Michael beat Prada 2 in weekdays on Monday, Wednesday and yesterday. Tuesday was a close call with both grossing $4.7M each.<\/p>\n

\n\t3.) Mortal Kombat II (NL) 3,503 theaters, Wk $48.8M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t4.) The Sheep Detectives (AMZ) 3,457 theaters, Wk $20.3M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t5.) Project Hail Mary (AMZ) 2,417 theaters, Wk $9.2M (-23%), Total $330.95M\/Wk 8
Let the record show that Project Hail Mary, sans any Oscar nominations (yet), saw its domestic cume rocket past Oppenheimer\u2018s final total ($330M) this past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curry Barker\u2019s romantic horror movie Obsession, which Focus Features\/Blumhouse\u2019s picked up for $15M+, has grossed $2.6M in previews…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,19695,327,34433,100467],"class_list":["post-486251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael","tag-movies","tag-obsession","tag-the-devil-wears-prada-2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116579429639555364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}