The film raked in $7 million Friday-Sunday, its worst No. 1 finish in fifteen months, with Variety magazine calling it a "catastrophically slow weekend."
Fortunately for Sony, the production of this feature film cost just under $10 million.
Nathalie Emmanuel and Thomas Doherty are the main actors in this film inspired by Dracula and which according to expert David Gross "does not appeal to critics".
The action movie "Bullet Train" comes in second with 5.6 million over the weekend.
Brad Pitt plays one of the hitmen who try to kill each other on a high-speed train between Tokyo and Kyoto.
With 4.9 million over the weekend, “Beast”, from Universal Studios, is in third position, just ahead of “Top Gun: Maverick”, which still garners 4.7 million dollars in revenue after 14 weeks.
The "Top Gun" sequel, still starring Tom Cruise, has already raked in a total of $691 million in North America and $720 million in the rest of the world.
As for the animated film "Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero", the 21st feature film of the Japanese saga, it demoted from first to fifth place with only 4.6 million dollars in revenue.
Here is the rest of the Top 10:
6 - "Krypto and the Super Animals" ($4.2 million)
7 - "Three Thousand Years Waiting for You" (2.9 million)
8 - "The Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru" (2.7 million)
9 - "Thor: Love and Thunder" (2.7 million)
10 - Where the crayfish sing" (2.3 million)
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