GlassOnion made $15M during its week at the box office, which is the best theatrical opening of any Netflix movie.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has achieved Netflix's highest opening week ever for a theatrical outing. The film is Rian Johnson's follow-up to his popular 2019 whodunit Knives Out, which introduced Daniel Craig's eccentric but effective detective Benoit Blanc.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Per Deadline, now that Thanksgiving week is over, Glass Onion's opening box office run has officially taken the #3 slot, landing above any other adult release despite only playing in 638 theaters. Its five-day total of $13.8 million is expected to land at $15 million by the end of its one-week run. This is by a wide margin the highest performance that a Netflix theatrical release has earned, ahead of their 2021 hit Red Notice by a factor of about $13.5 million.
However, this slightly more expansive limited release for Glass Onion seems to have broken the Netflix theatrical curse. There are likely several factors contributing to this. First is the film's A-list ensemble, which in addition to Craig includes Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista. Second, the original Knives Out was already a huge success in theaters, earning $312.9 million off a budget of $40 million.
The excellent gross for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery partially comes from Netflix making the confident move to play it more prominently, in more theaters during a holiday weekend. However, the fact that they made that move at all speaks to the fact that the company may be experimenting with alternative theatrical windows for their exclusives.
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