{"id":73693,"date":"2025-09-19T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73693\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:22:06","slug":"him-makes-2-million-previews-demon-slayer-to-win-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73693\/","title":{"rendered":"Him Makes $2 Million Previews, Demon Slayer to Win Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTwo very different movies are facing off this week at the box office: the football thriller \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/him\/\" id=\"auto-tag_him\" data-tag=\"him\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Him<\/a>\u201d and the romance drama \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/a-big-bold-beautiful-journey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_a-big-bold-beautiful-journey\" data-tag=\"a-big-bold-beautiful-journey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Big Bold Beautiful Journey<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tUniversal\u2019s \u201cHim,\u201d starring Marlon Wayans as an aging quarterback, is expected to go the distance with $15 million to $18 million in its first weekend at the box office. So far, it\u2019s made $2 million in Thursday previews. Sony\u2019s \u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey,\u201d starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell, is projected to make between $8 million and $10 million this weekend; it made $400,000 in Thursday previews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHowever, \u201cHim\u201d and \u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey\u201d are playing for second place behind last week\u2019s surprise box office hit, Sony\u2019s anime \u201cDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle.\u201d The Sony-owned Crunchyroll action adventure exceeded expectations last week and made $70 million domestically in its opening, shattering the record for an anime movie. The previous best box office opening for an anime movie was back in 1999 when \u201cPok\u00e9mon: The First Movie\u201d launched to $31 million. During its second weekend, \u201cDemon Slayer\u201d is on track to make $21 million to $25 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHim,\u201d directed by Justin Tipping and produced by horror maestro Jordan Peele, only cost $27 million to make, so it won\u2019t need much to turn a profit. It follows an up-and-coming quarterback (played by Tyriq Withers) who studies under the questionable mentorship of his football idol (Wayans). The movie also stars Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cA Big Bold Beautiful Journey,\u201d directed by Kogonada, follows an unexpected love story between Robbie and Farrell\u2019s characters, who begin as strangers then have their lives strongly intertwined. The romantic fantasy also stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Kevin Kline, Lily Rabe, Jodie Turner-Smith, Billy Magnussen and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two very different movies are facing off this week at the box office: the football thriller \u201cHim\u201d and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[48483,18,117,48484,19,17,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-73693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-a-big-bold-beautiful-journey","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-him","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73693","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=73693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}