Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery racks up $15M first week in limited theatrical release
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The Netflix movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery garnered an expected $15 million opening in its first week after opening $13.3 million in its first five days.
The box office totals were the streaming service’s most lucrative theatrical release for a movie before it arrived on Netflix.
The film’s $9.3 million three-day opening marks the tenth-best opening for a motion picture in fewer than 900 theaters, finishing ahead of titles such as 1991’s The Doors, which made $9.1 million in 840 theaters; and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, which opened in 530 theaters for $8.68 million in 2004, deadline reported.
The Netflix movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – starring Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick, Daniel Craig and Leslie Odom Jr. – expected to open $15 million in its first week after opening $13.3 million in its first five days
The cast of the Rian Johnson-directed film includes Daniel Craig, Janelle Monae, Dave Bautista, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson and Leslie Odom Jr.
The film was shown at the top three cinema companies in the country: AMC, Regal and Cinemark.
Sources told Deadline that Netflix reached a business deal with theaters, charging about 40 percent rent instead of 60-70 percent, and spending four times as much on exhibitor marketing.
Cinemark previously showed movies from Netflix from the aftermath of the 2020 pandemic.
Edward Norton and Dave Bautista can be seen in the film, which scored 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes on Sunday
Henwick, Hudson, and Janelle Monae can be seen in a shot from the sequel
The film’s $9.3 million three-day opening is the tenth-best opening for a motion picture in less than 900 theaters
According to Deadline, some of the best movie theaters to show the film included AMC Lincoln Square NYC, Toronto’s Cineplex Odeon Varsity, AMC Burbank, AMC Century City, AMC Boston Common, Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn, AMC Grove LA, AMC Disney Springs 24 in Buena Vista, Florida, AMC Empire 25 NYC and AMC Dine-In Thoroughbred in Franklin, Tennessee.
Glass Onion had a score of 93 percent Rotten tomatoes on Sunday.
The film’s predecessor, 2019’s Knives Out, premiered over Thanksgiving of 2019 and grossed $41.4 million in its five-day release en route to a $165.3 million opening.
The previous highest opening for the streamer was the 2021 action movie Red Notice – starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot – after a three-day opening of $1.25 million to $1.5 million. The film is also the streaming service’s most watched movie worldwide with over 364 million hours watched.
Disney’s $135 million film Strange World had an underperforming opening of $28 million worldwide
The film had a domestic opening of $11,900,000 in 4,174 theaters
Elsewhere, Disney’s $135 million film Strange World had an underperforming opening of $28 million worldwide. The film had a domestic opening of $11,900,000 in 4,174 theaters.
The film, which was co-directed by Don Hall and Qui Nguyen, features the voices of celebrities such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Gabrielle Union, Dennis Quaid and Lucy Liu.
Both Glass Onion and Strange World will debut on their studio streaming services around Christmas, with Glass Onion leaving theaters until the day it hits the streamer, December 23.