Eli Roth is back in the horror genre with the holiday-themed slasher movie Thanksgiving, which dropped just 31% in its second weekend at the box office here in the United States.
TriStar Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s Thanksgiving made $2.785 million on Friday, $2.785 million on Saturday and a projected $1.580 million on Sunday from 3,204 locations in the US/Canada. The studio projects $11.125 million for the five-day holiday weekend, a stellar hold, bringing the film’s total domestic gross to $24.193 million through Sunday.
Internationally, the film made $1.5 million over the weekend (traditional 3-day) from 2,400+ screens in 16 markets for an international cume of $4.9 million. The global total for Thanksgiving is now $29.1 million. The rated “R” bloodbath was produced for just $15 million.
No word yet on the film’s at-home premiere date. Stay tuned.
The film, an expansion of Roth’s faux trailer seen in Grindhouse (2007), was released in theaters worldwide by TriStar Pictures and Spyglass Media Group (Scream).
In Thanksgiving, “After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.”
The cast for the feature length slasher movie includes Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Jalen Thomas Brooks (“Walker”), Milo Manheim (Zombies), Nell Verlaque (“Big Shot”), Gina Gershon (“Chucky”), Tim Dillon and Rick Hoffman (Hostel).
Roth wrote the script with Jeff Rendell. Roger Birnbaum and Eli Roth are producing.
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