Tag: André Øvredal

Passenger Box Office Prediction

Paramount hopes audiences are in the mood for a scary story to watch in the dark when Passenger arrives in multiplexes on May 22nd. André Øvredal, who directed Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, is behind the camera with Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, and Melissa Leo in the cast.

The fright fest boasts an effective trailer and genre fans could turn out over the Memorial Day weekend. However, horror fans have had some options lately and Obsession could still be performing well in its sophomore frame based on word-of-mouth.

A gross above $10 million over the four-day is certainly feasible for its ceiling, but I’m going under.

Passenger opening weekend prediction: $6.3 million (Friday to Sunday); $7.3 million (Friday to Monday)

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter Box Office Prediction

Universal hopes that horror fans board The Last Voyage of the Demeter when it opens August 11th. Based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s signature novel Dracula, André Øvredal (maker of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) directs Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, David Dastmalchian, Javier Botet, Liam Cunningham, and Woody Norman in the tale of passengers trying to surviving a trip from Transylvania to London.

The Dracula angle could succeed in getting some genre fans out, but this Voyage‘s marketing campaign seems to be lacking. At this point, the studio might settle for a premiere similar to its Idris Elba starrer Beast, which took in nearly $12 million in mid-August last year. It could also debut in range with the vampiric The Invitation, which didn’t reach $7 million a week after Beast opened.

A gross closer to The Invitation as opposed to Beast is where this might land.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter opening weekend prediction: $6.4 million