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With box office numbers coming in late Friday, the DC Comics adaptation The Flash is reportedly likely to suffer a near-unprecedented 75% slump in its second weekend, according to Deadline.
The film debuted last weekend at $55.7 million Friday-Sunday while it’s down from grossing $14 million this weekend after grossing $4.3 million on Friday.
If that number holds, it will be worse than the 66% second-weekend drop of Green Lantern in 2011 and one of the worst drops ever for a major superhero tentpole film.
The film is clearly beaten by Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Pixar’s Elemental battling for the crown. Both are on track to rake in around $18 million each over the weekend.
If those numbers hold up, Elemental will see a mere 39% drop over its second weekend, which is pretty good. “Spider-Verse” fares better with a 33% drop over the fourth weekend, bringing the total price by the end of Sunday to $315.8 million. As such, it’s likely that the film will end its hit streak with a domestic yield only slightly below Spider-Man: Far From Home, which ended with a US closing price of $390.5 million.
“The Flash” could also lose to Jennifer Lawrence’s R-rated comedy “No Hard Feelings,” which grossed $5.3 million on Friday and will gross about $14-$15 million in its opening weekend.
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” closes out the top five with a three-day gross of $10.6 million for a total of $121.9 million to date. Domestically, the film is on track to surpass the last two films in the series, which finished at $130 and $127 million, respectively.
Finally, Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ hit the big time this weekend and seems to have done well – the film is on track to gross $7.5 million.