"Cryk" is probably the most famous horror film that came out of the 1990s, but would not assume that his performance at the weekend. How Upi Reported on December 23, 1996, "Creek" was originally deleted from three other recent releases:

"" Beavis and Butt-Head do America ", a cartoon featuring a pair of adolescents with wise and crunchy MTV, took more than $ 20 million over the weekend. The second week in a row, taking $ 6.9 million to $ 2,901.

Only $ 6.3 million for his open weekend? If Scream VI opened, it would have been declared a total disaster and Plans for "scream 7" would have been abolished just then and there.

The reason the number looks so low is because the start weekend is usually the best movie. You can usually expect the movie to fall for more than half in your second weekend and continue to fall from there. If Crick continued on that trajectory, it would not have broken even against a $ 14 million budget.

Fortunately, those who saw it at the weekend did not stop rejoicing that drew the attention of the other movie. Cryk ended up as one of the few films where her second weekend surpassed her first by bringing $ 9 million, with her third weekend, performing even better. His earnings diminished after that moment, but not as much as you expected; He was still involved in over $ 1 million a week at the weekend of the 1997 memorial day.

The triumph of Crick's box office is something that has become much less common today, mainly due to how fast study should publish their films on digital and streaming. Since viewers nowadays know they can wait a few weeks and watch a movie at home at their pace, they had no choice but to get out of their home and buy a ticket to see Wes Craven's horror hit for most of 1997. The DVD did not release the DVD even until December of that year, almost 12 months after the film.

But even with today's faster media landscape, long -legged movies at the box office are still possible. Pixar's "elementary" was declared a flop in his open weekend in 2023, for example, but seven weeks later, she became Pixar's best performance from the original Kovid Pandemic. Also, Avatar fans can be recalled that "Avatar: The Water Road" in 2022 opened for "only" $ 134.1 million in the domestic treasurer, which was almost half of what "Spider-Man: No Made Home" did not worship almost a year ago. However, the "Water Road" had longer legs, and in a few months, he surpassed "by no means at home" to become the third top film of all time.

All this will show that you should never be too fast to discard the film as a total failure. Even movies that never find success in cinema can still get a second life of streaming (or, In the case of a "ransom of Joashank", through incessant repetitions of TNT). As long as the work of art is there in the world, there is always a chance that she will eventually gather the gratitude she deserves.