Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Box Office: Now You See It, Now It’s Gone as New Releases “Running Man,” Sleight of Hand Barely Register Friday While We Wait for “Wicked”

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Friday box office with Thursday previews was an issue of now you see it, now you don’t.

Numbers failed to materialize for “Now You See It” Part 3, or for “Running Man.”

We’re looking at $12 million and $10 million weekends, respectively.

That is Deadsville.

The whole box office is asleep.No buzz on anything.

The wait for “Wicked: For Good,” and “Marty Supreme” is now getting tense.

There’s just nothing happening. It’s a snooze.

Small releases like “Bugonia” and “Deliver Me from Nothing” are not amping up.

Things are so bad that Universal has anniversary runs of “Back to the Future” and the original “Wicked” lodged in the theaters.

SPC’s “Nuremberg” should be doing more, but it’s just lying there.

“Frankenstein” is doing business or did, but Netflix doesn’t report numbers and now Guillermo del Toro’s fine film is playing on the streaming platform. So much for that.

I guess “Jay Kelly” is out there somewhere. A top film for the year, but again, it’s Netflix, so no reporting.

Last week’s horror film, “Predator: Badlands,” was down 78% from last Friday, so that novelty has passed as well.

Tumbleweeds blowing past the popcorn stands…

Grrrr….

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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