‘Knock At The Cabin’ Earns $14.2 Million in Domestic Box Office, Dethroning ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’

The horror film Knock At the Cabin earned $14.2 million across its opening weekend, topping the box office charts and taking over the No. 1 spot, which had been held by Avatar: The Way of Water for the past seven weeks. Alongside M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller, Paramount’s 80 for Brady was the weekend’s second box office success, scoring No. 2 with $12.5 million.

The sports comedy starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field follows four best friends who travel to the Super Bowl to watch their hero, Tom Brady. Whilst failing to impress the critics, scoring only 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie managed to draw in older audiences still reluctant to attend theaters due to the pandemic. Paramount’s president of domestic distribution, Chris Aronson, commented: “It proves the old adage: you don’t need to make a movie for everybody, but it has to be for somebody.”

A Man Called Otto, starring Tom Hanks, despite not making it in the top five at the box office, marked another success for movies aimed at older audiences, crossing a gross total of $50 million in its sixth weekend of release.

Disney and 20^th Century’s Avatar: The Way of Water is now in third place at the box office with $10.8 million in its eighth weekend. So far, the blockbuster has raked in $636 million in North America and $2.174 billion globally and is now the fourth-highest-grossing movie in history.

Fourth place in the box office went to Universal’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The animated adventure generated $7.9 million in its seventh weekend and has grossed $151 million overall in North America and $368 million globally.

Rounding off the top five was BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas, a cinematic cut of the South Korean boy band’s 2022 concert, which earned $5.1 million.

Here are the weekend’s top ten films:

1. Knock at the Cabin – $14,200,000 / total gross – $14,200,000
2. 80 for Brady – $12,500,000 / total gross – $12,500,000
3. Avatar: The Way of Water – $10,800,000 / total gross – $636,420,442
4. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – $7,950,000 / total gross – $151,292,670
5. BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas – $6,280,000 / total gross – $9,124,384
6. A Man Called Otto – $4,175,000 / total gross – $53,003,403
7. M3GAN – $3,800,000 / total gross – $87,597,375
8. Missing – $3,725,000 / total gross – $23,017,094
9. The Chosen Season 3: Episode 1 & 2 – $3,641,538 / total gross – $18,253,627
10. Pathaan – $2,709,905 / total gross – $14,278,188