Box Office: 'Mortal Kombat' And 'Demon Slayer' Both Suffer Huge Friday Drops

Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema's Mortal Kombat took a brutally large tumble last night. The R-rated video game adaptation grossed $1.85 million (-79%) on its second Friday, which is a Friday-to-Friday drop on par (-81%) with Batman v Superman five years ago. We're likely looking at a $5.9 million (-74%) second-weekend gross and a $33.5 million ten-day cume. That's a second-weekend plunge closer to Warcraft (-70% from a $24 million debut in 2016) than Tomb Raider (-59% after a $23.6 million debut in 2018). As such, barring a revival next weekend (or the mere fact that it stays in theaters for a while), we're probably looking at a cume closer to Resident Evil: Retribution ($42 million in 2012) than Resident Evil: Afterlife ($60 million in 2012).