New Final Destination film slays North America box office with $66m opening
Canadian actress Kaitlyn Santa Juana stars in Final Destination: Bloodlines as a young woman who learns how her dying grandmother long ago cheated Death. PHOTO: WBEI
LOS ANGELES - Final Destination: Bloodlines, the latest instalment in the horror franchise (2000 to present), made a grisly splash in North American cinemas over the weekend, taking in US$51 million (S$66 million) to debut in the top spot, industry estimates showed on May 18.
'This is a sensational opening for the sixth episode of a horror series,' said Mr David Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research, adding that critics' reviews and audience scores were 'excellent'.
The previous film in the franchise, Final Destination 5, opened in 2011 to just US$18 million.
Canadian actress Kaitlyn Santa Juana stars in the Warner Bros flick as a young woman who learns how her dying grandmother long ago cheated Death – and she now has to deal with the shocking ramifications of that.
The movie also featured American actor Tony Todd, who died at age 69 in November 2024. In one of his final movie roles, he played the recurring character William Bludworth, the mysterious mortician who had appeared in Final Destination (2000), Final Destination 2 (2003) and Final Destination 5.
In second for the May 16-through-May 18 period was the previous weekend's leader, Marvel superhero film Thunderbolts from Disney, at US$16.5 million. The film about a motley bunch of antiheroes stars English actress Florence Pugh and Romanian-born American actor Sebastian Stan.
Vampire thriller Sinners, starring American actor Michael B. Jordan in dual lead roles, claimed the third spot, taking in US$15.4 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations estimated.
Bloodlines and Sinners continued a recent string of successes for Warner Bros, on the heels of commercial flops Mickey 17 (2025), The Alto Knights (2025) and Joker: Folie A Deux (2024), American magazine Variety noted.
Yet another Warner film, A Minecraft Movie, placed fourth, at US$5.8 million. The live-action film, starring American actors Jack Black and Jason Momoa, has pulled in US$416.6 million in North America and US$512 million internationally in seven weeks.
And in fifth place, at just under US$5 million, was Amazon MGM Studios' thriller The Accountant 2, with American actor Ben Affleck playing a neurodivergent math genius with criminal ties and American actor Jon Bernthal as his hit-man brother.
Rounding out the top 10 were Hurry Up Tomorrow (US$3.3 million), Friendship (US$1.4 million), Clown In A Cornfield (US$1.3 million), Until Dawn (US$800,000) and The Amateur (US$712,000). AFP
- Final Destination: Bloodlines is showing in Singapore cinemas.
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