The weekend box office hopes to hold it together after the successful launch of Pixar’s Hoppers, with Universal delivering the third feature take of a Colleen Hoover novel to the screen in Reminders of Him, and A24 hoping for one of its indie horror pics, undertone, to overperform.
Both are off to solid starts, with Reminders of Him at $1.9 million in previews Thursday at 3,000 theaters from showtimes that began at 2 p.m. A24’s undertone, which premiered at Sundance, did $1M yesterday from 2,750.
Reminders of Him, from director Vanessa Caswill, had a Thursday night that’s above the previous Hoover pic Regretting You from Paramount ($1M previews, $13.6M opening), ahead of A24 rom-com Materialists ($1.5M, $11.3M opening), and just below The Housemaid ($2.2M previews, $19M opening). Forecasts for the movie starring Maika Monroe, Tyriq Withers and Lainey Wilson were between $10M-$15M heading into the weekend.
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