“Chainsaw Man — The Film: Reze Arc,” the Japanese anime from Crunchyroll and Sony, claimed the highest spot on the home field workplace this weekend, taking in an estimated $17.25 million, in line with Comscore.
The R-rated film, primarily based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s standard manga collection, follows teen demon hunter Denji, who’s betrayed by the yakuza and killed as he makes an attempt to repay the money owed he inherited from his dad and mom. His beloved chainsaw-powered canine Pochita makes a deal and sacrifices his life, fusing with Denji who’s reborn with the power to rework elements of his physique into chainsaws.
“Chainsaw Man,” already a world hit, delivered a blow to Disney and twentieth Century’s biopic “Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere,” starring Jeremy Allen White, which got here in a disappointing fourth place with an estimated $9.1 million.
Primarily based on the 2023 Warren Zanes ebook of the identical identify, the movie plumbs Springsteen’s life and profession by way of the artistic course of, through the making of his 1982 acoustic album “Nebraska.”
The Instances described the film as a “considerate exploration of the artistic course of” that runs out of steam by the tip, “meandering aimlessly right into a depressive interval of Springsteen’s, and it by no means fairly regains its footing.”
In its second week out, the horror sequel “Black Telephone 2” took the No. 2 slot, incomes an estimated $13 million over the weekend, giving the Common and Blumhouse film a home whole of $49.1 million.
Rounding out the third spot is Paramount’s romantic drama “Regretting You,” the most recent movie adaptation of novelist Colleen Hoover (“It Ends With Us”). Starring Allison Williams and Dave Franco, it opened to an estimated $12.5 million domestically.
