“Downton Abbey” Smashed “Rambo: Last Blood” in the Box Office

Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Harry Hadden-Paton, and Laura Carmichael in
Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Harry Hadden-Paton, and Laura Carmichael in "Downton Abbey"

The world of cinema belongs to action movies and sci-fi? Not always. The weekend’s box office numbers grant the win to the periodical drama Downton Abbey which grossed 31 million dollars in North America. The two movies fighting for the second place are Rambo: Last Blood and Ad Astra – both trailing Downton Abbey by more than 10 million dollars.

These results surprised the box office observers who predicted Rambo: Last Blood will have the biggest gross. However, while Rambo, with 19.015 million dollars’ box office and Ad Astra with 19.2 million dollars have met the expectations, Downton Abbey has surpassed them by a large margin. The movie appealed to women (74% of the ticket buyers) and people over 35 (60% of the ticket buyers) – demographics who usually don’t get good variety of movies.

It: Chapter Two added 17.2 million dollars to its earnings and Hustlers grossed a further of 17 million dollars bringing the two movies to 179 million dollars and 72 million dollars respectively (domestically).

Halston, a documentary by Frédéric Tcheng was the least earning movie with 1,158 dollars on his 14th weekend. The Goldfinch, which screens for the second week on 2,542 screens earned less than a million dollars.