Instead, it pulled in what was initially estimated to be $117 million and once the final numbers came in, was actually a whopping $123 million.
We should note that this weekend’s projected $50 million is a huge drop, percentage-wise from last weekend’s intake, but the movie is making so much money, it shouldn’t matter in the least.
Filmed on a mid-sized $35 million budget, if the Stephen King remake had made this weekend’s projected $50 million during its opening weekend, it would have been seen as a hit.
There are actually quite a few movies made every year that need a behemoth first couple of weeks at the box office just to break even.