Wolf Man Reboot Makes Over $1 Million in Opening Night Previews
The reboot has garnered more than $1 million in Thursday previews facing off against the Keke Palmer and SZA-led comedy One of Them Days.
Wolf Man, a reboot of the 1941 horror classic The Wolf Man, is directed by Upgrade, The Invisible Man, and Insidious Chapter 3 filmmaker Leigh Whannell. It follows a family’s relocation from San Francisco to Oregon after its patriarch, Blake (Christopher Abbott), inherits his childhood home. It soon takes a terrifying turn when a werewolf attacks and injures Blake. He then begins to evolve into something that may endanger his wife and daughter.
Universal and Blumhouse’s latest feature has accumulated a total of $1.4 million in Thursday previews and is expected to earn $17 million to $21 million in its opening weekend, according to Variety. It is currently facing off against One of Them Days, which garnered $1.3 million.
The film, rated R for “bloody violent content and grisly images,” is Universal’s latest attempt to bring its classic monsters to the big screen following Whannell’s successful reboot of The Invisible Man. It stars Christopher Abbott (Sanctuary) as Blake Lovell, Julia Garner (Apartment 7A) as Charlotte, Matilda Firth (Hullraisers) as Ginger, Sam Jaeger (Devil in Ohio) as Grady, Benedict Hardie (Upgrade) as Derek, and Milo Cawthorne (Blood Punch) as Man.
The character has received different iterations over the past years, including the 1943 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, 2009’s House of the Wolf Man, and the 2010 critically panned Benicio del Toro and Emily Blunt’s The Wolfman.
While the latest reboot received mixed reviews upon its release (with a 55% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes so far), ComingSoon’s Jonathan Sim calls it “the best Blumhouse movie in years” and “cinematic brilliance.”
Wolf Man is still in theaters.
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