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The box office may have enjoyed one of its biggest-ever weekends, but a well-received horror proved to be the biggest casualty by far

A very rare misfire from one of the industry's most bulletproof genres.

In a rare case of expectation and reality being in perfect sync for once, Barbie and Oppenheimer did exactly what everybody expected them to do and tore the box office a new one this past weekend.

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Unfortunately, there always tends to be one casualty in situations like this, and in a turn-up for the books that doesn’t come along very often, it was horror’s turn this weekend. Lionsgate’s Cobweb might possess The Boys‘ Antony Starr and Lizzy Caplan as its leads, as well as solid Rotten Tomatoes ratings of 63 and 76 percent from critics and crowds, but it didn’t even manage to chart.

Sure, it wasn’t a wide release playing on thousands of screens like its vastly more expensive counterparts, but witnessing a horror come along and sink without a trace at the box office is a phenomenon that’s just as rare – and painfully ironic – as Barbenheimer itself.


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