A24’s Glen Powell Thriller Primarily based On 77-Yr-Outdated Traditional Has Vital Week 2 Hunch Regardless of Including Extra Theaters

How one can Make a Killing is dying in theaters.

The brand new A24 thriller, which stars Glen Powell as a person killing off his estranged rich household so as to get their inheritance, is a free remake of the 1949 Alec Guinness traditional Form Hearts and Coronets. 2026’s How one can Make a Killing debuted at No. 6 on the weekend of February 20 with a per-screen common of $2,146, which is unusually low for an A24 film.

Per Deadline, as of Sunday morning, How one can Make a Killing is projected to earn a 3-day whole of $1.56 million on the home field workplace by the top of its sophomore weekend. That whole sees it slumping with a week-on-week drop of 55%.

Whereas that quantity is not solely stunning for the week 2 drop of an underperforming film, it’s brutal contemplating the truth that it is enjoying in 1,726 theaters, which is a rise of 101 from its debut weekend.

As a result of How one can Make a Killing has made a lot much less in a bigger variety of theaters, the per-screen common of the Glen Powell film has taken a serious hit. Despite the fact that $2,146 was already comparatively low for A24, the quantity has now sunk to $904.

To date, How one can Make a Killing has not obtained a sturdy worldwide launch, so it’s virtually solely depending on home returns. Nonetheless, the cumulative home whole of $6.2 million that it’s anticipated to achieve by the top of the weekend nonetheless pales compared to the film’s reported price range of $15 million, which probably locations its estimated break-even level someplace round $37.5 million.

Additionally it is a vital disappointment. Critics’ divided How one can Make a Killing critiques have earned it a Rotten rating of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, making it Glen Powell’s fourth-worst-reviewed film ever, behind The Expendables 3 (32%), Experience Alongside 2 (15%), and 2016’s Misconduct (7%).

In the end, the A24 thriller appears set to change into Glen Powell’s second theatrical flop in a row after Edgar Wright’s The Operating Man, a dystopian Stephen King adaptation that grossed simply $68.6 million in opposition to its enormous reported price range of $110 million. Nonetheless, there’s nonetheless hope for the Anybody However You and Twisters hitmaker.

Within the wake of How one can Make a Killing, Glen Powell has a sturdy slate of promising motion pictures within the works, together with J.J. Abrams’ The Nice Past (which additionally stars Jenna Ortega), Barry Jenkins’ The Pure Order, and untitled initiatives from Judd Apatow and Ron Howard.

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