Weekend Box Office: Glass still kicks ass, but The Kid Who Would Be King won't be
Sure, it may be far from perfect, but you can’t accuse it of being uninteresting. Glass, M. Night Shyamalan’s weirdo interpretation of a superhero trilogy conclusion, finished atop the box office for the second weekend in a row. With $19 million and a drop of just over fifty percent, the sequel to Unbreakable and Split is well on its way to grossing $100 million in the U.S.
That’s much better news than any of this week’s new releases got, starting with Fox’s The Kid Who Would Be King. Despite generally positive reviews (I didn’t say ours, I said “generally”), the film failed to find much of an audience, ambling its sword-and-sorcery trappings into fourth place, perhaps on the back of Patrick Stewart’s bellowing Merlin. Faring even worse was the misbegotten Matthew McConaughey-Anne Hathaway noir exercise Serenity: Despite a twist ending so hilariously ludicrous that we almost encourage seeing it for yourself, the mystery thriller sailed straight into eighth place with a mere $4.8 million, even scoring the additional ignominy (or praise, depending on your point of view) of receiving a “D+” CinemaScore from audiences.