Austin Butler in Warner Bros. Pictures' biopic Elvis
Crowded Weekend Box Office Features ‘Elvis’ and ‘The Black Phone’ Debuts
June 24, 2022
The June 26 weekend box office is set to take on a pre-pandemic look with five major theatrical releases competing for consumers’ spending.
Warner Bros. Pictures’ high-profile biopic Elvis generated $3.5 million in June 23 pre-screening revenue to cement itself as the weekend pole sitter. The Baz Luhrmann-directed movie features Austin Butler as “The King of Rock & Roll,” and Tom Hanks as the Elvis Presley’s overbearing manager Colonel Tom Parker.
The movie, which generated a 83% Rotten Tomatoes score from 95 critics through June 22, is projected to generate from $25 million to $38 million in North American ticket sales, putting it ahead of Universal Pictures’ new Blumhouse horror flick, The Black Phone, starring Ethan Hawke, at $20.3 million in projected revenue. The movie has a 86% Rotten Tomatoes score from 57 critics.
The new releases buttress theatrical holdovers Jurassic World: Dominion (Universal) with $31.5 million in projected revenue, Paramount Pictures’ enduring Top Gun: Maverick ($30 million), and Disney/Pixar Animation’s Lightyear with $23 million is estimated revenue in its second weekend of release.
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