Will 'Black Panther' Still Hold Out When 'Avengers: Infinity War' Arrives Next Week? - Forbes

 Black Panther will be in tenth-place this weekend, so the only question is whether it’ll still be in tenth place (or higher) next weekend when Avengers: Infinity War rolls into town. Forbes | Scot Mendelson 

New Line and Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.'s Rampage earned another $5 million, dropping 57% and snagging a new $50.6m eight-day cume. 

The $120m-budgeted monster mash should earn around $18.4m (-48%) in its second weekend for a decent $64m ten-day cume. At a glance, we're probably looking at a $100m+ domestic finish for the Dwayne Johnson movie, unless it gets absolutely butchered by Avengers: Infinity War.

But it gets past Angry Birds ($103m), it'll be the second-biggest video game grosser ever in unadjusted domestic earnings.

Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare took a sharp drop yesterday, earning $2.5 million (-69%) on Friday for a 24.975m eight-day cume. To be fair, the superior Happy Death Day dropped 74% on its second Friday, but that was coming off a larger opening weekend. We can expect a $7.7m (-59%) second weekend and a $30.5m ten-day total for the $5m-budgeted Universal/Comcast Corp. release. Considering how well Paramount/Viacom Inc.’s A Quiet Place has held up ($6.4m Friday/$21m weekend), I’m slightly impressed that this one didn’t get outright clobbered.

Universal’s Blockers earned another $2.1 million (-35%), meaning that it may yet stick around. We can expect a $6.8m (-37%) third weekend and $48m 17-day total for the terrific $22m comedy. In related “Yay for LBGTQ-positive studio releases” news, Love, Simon should top $40m tomorrow. Warner Bros.’ Ready Player One has just passed the $500m worldwide mark. It earned another $1.9m (-35%) for $120m domestic cume. Expect a $7.2m (-37%) weekend and $125m 25-day domestic total. It’s doing well in North America, but it’s a genuine overseas monster.

Black Panther will be in tenth-place this weekend, so the only question is whether it’ll still be in tenth place (or higher) next weekend when Avengers: Infinity War rolls into town. The Walt Disney flick earned another $1.227 million (-15%) for a new $677.7m domestic cume. We can expect a $4.7m weekend (-18%) and $681m domestic total. We may find out tomorrow if it has enough overseas juice to pass The Last Jedi ($1.33 billion worldwide) in global grosses.

It will fall behind Avatar in day-to-day totals today. It is not getting $6 million Saturday and Avatar had $683m by its 65th day in theaters. Black Panther will have to settle for merely being the third-fastest grossing movie in domestic box office history (sans inflation), behind Avatar and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. We’re still looking at a domestic total higher than the inflation-adjusted domestic totals of The Dark Knight ($683m) and Thunderball ($686m). I may be the only one impressed by that, but I am impressed.