‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ easily sets franchise record with $46 million opening weekend
Movie-goers are loving the gore, as the new horror picture Final Destination: Bloodlines has smashed franchise records since its May 14th release.
Final Destination: Bloodlines will make more in its opening weekend than the last movie did in its entire run. The Warner Bros. movie made a massive $21m on its first day, the best opening day ever for the series. As predicted by Deadline, it is on its way to a franchise-best three-day of $46m.
After a 14-year break, Warner Bros. hired directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein to zap some life back into the deadly series. The box office success will be enough to knock Disney-Marvel’s Thunderbolts* out of the top spot at the box office after two weeks.
The horror follows college student Stefanie, played by Kaitlyn Santa Juana, who leaves University in search of answers after being plagued by a violent recurring nightmare. Her quest leads her to her grandmother, played by Gabrielle Rose, to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all. The picture also features Tony Todd of Candyman in his final role.
The last movie in the franchise was released in 2011. Directed by Steven Quale, Far Out rated the film highly, stating that it “is the first movie since the original that does the most to change the franchise and has the most fun doing so in the process, featuring some of the craziest deaths of the entire series.”
The new offering has garnered much attention due to a thrilling opening scene where hundreds on a newly opened restarauant hundreds of feet int the sky suffer various untimely, gory deaths in a premonition. A scene including a gory alteration via septum piercing has also received much attention online.
Warner reported $5.5 million in previews for New Line’s Final Destination: Bloodlines, which is even ahead of Sinners‘ $4.7M. The film is in cinemas now.
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