Spiral’s Box Office Success Has Pushed The Saw Franchise Past A Key Milestone

Unfortunately, the rest of the box office picture for this past weekend is… not great. Arguably the biggest new release to come out this past Friday was Zack Snyder’s Army Of The Dead, but that was a streaming launch. The highest grossing “new” movie to come was the animated Scoob!, which got a big screen re-release following its PVOD debut last year during the early months of the pandemic. Still, it only made $850,000 and nabbed the eighth spot in the Top 10 – behind Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat, which made an additional $935,000 in its fifth week. As for why things played out like this, we’re scratching our heads just like you wondering why none of the major studios thought to take advantage of the vacated three day stretch, even with a small-ish movie (there are certainly still plenty of films that audiences are waiting to see after they were delayed last year).