Box Office: May 14-16, 2021: SPIRAL, WRATH OF MAN, THOSE WHO WISHED ME DEAD, & More

Box Office May 14-16, 2021

The theatrical movie box office results for May 14, 2021 through May 16, 2021 have been released.

Spiral premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office over the weekend with $8.7 Million.

Wrath of Man was Second at the box office with $3.7 Million.

Those Who Wish Me Dead premiered in Third Place at the box office over the weekend with $2.8 Million.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train was Fourth at the box office over the weekend with $1.8 Million.

Raya and the Last Dragon was Fifth at the box office over the weekend with $1.7 Million.

These films: Godzilla vs. Kong, Mortal Kombat, Finding You (which premiered this weekend), Profile (which premiered this weekend), and Here Today rounded out the top ten respectively.

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Spiral: From the Book of Saw, or simply Spiral, is a 2021 American horror film that serves as the ninth installment in the Saw film series. It is directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, his fourth film of the series, and written by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger. The film stars Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson, and follows police efforts to stop a Jigsaw copycat killer. The original creators of the series, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, serve as executive producers alongside Rock.

Those Who Wish Me Dead is a 2021 American neo-Western action thriller film directed by Taylor Sheridan with a screenplay by Michael Koryta, Charles Leavitt, and Sheridan, based on Koryta’s novel of the same name. The film follows a boy (Finn Little) who witnesses the murder of his father and goes on the run with a smokejumper (Angelina Jolie) in the Montana wilderness to escape a pair of assassins (Nicholas Hoult and Aidan Gillen) hired to silence him; Jon Bernthal, Medina Senghore, and Jake Weber also star.

Finding You is a 2021 American coming-of-age romance-comedy film written and directed by Brian Baugh, based on the 2011 young adult novel There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones. The film stars Rose Reid, Jedidiah Goodacre, and Katherine McNamara.

Profile is a 2018 thriller film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, from a screenplay by Bekmambetov, Britt Poulton, and Olga Kharina, based upon the non-fiction book In The Skin of a Jihadist by Anna Erelle. It stars Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams, Amir Rahimzadeh and Morgan Watkins.

Next week sees the release of: Sound of Violence, New Order, The Dry, and a plethora of other mainstream and independent films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Spiral will be Number One at the box office.

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