Bill Skarsgård’s Boy Kills World Blocked From Box Office Top 10 By 45-Year-Old Classic

Boy Kills World is off to a rough start at the box office, losing out on a Top 10 slot to a 45-year-old classic. The new action-comedy movie was directed by Moritz Mohr from a screenplay by Tyler Burton Smith and Arend Remmers. It stars Bill Skarsgård as the titular Boy, a deaf and mute fighter who has vowed revenge on the people who killed his family in a near-future dystopia. The cast of the movie also includes Jessica Rothe, Famke Janssen, and H. Jon Benjamin as the inner voice of Boy.

Per Deadline, the Boy Kills World release is kicking off with a slow opening weekend projected to take in a 3-day total of $1.6 million at the domestic box office. This will see it land at No. 11 on the chart, preventing it from holding a slot in the Top 10 during its debut. It has lost out to several other movies, including the new releases Challengers and Unsung Hero, the holdover hits Godzilla x Kong and Civil War, and even the 45th-anniversary re-release of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi-horror classic Alien, which is set to take No. 10 with $1.78 million.

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Boy Kills World opening below its original $2 to $3 million projections likely spells bad news for the production. While its budget has not yet been officially reported, the average budget for the feature slate that Hammerstone Studios producer Alex Lebovici is currently managing is $18 million. As movie theaters keep half of ticket sales, meaning movies generally need to earn back twice their production budgets in order to turn a profit, this would likely place the break-even point for the movie somewhere between $20 and $50 million, a total it seems unlikely to reach if it doesn’t see growth.

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Boy Kills World reviews may not be strong enough to help the movie rise above this lukewarm debut. While the movie has a Fresh score on the review aggregator service Rotten Tomatoes, at the time of writing it has a 61% rating, which is just 2% away from the line past which it would be considered Rotten. While audiences have so far rated it slightly higher at 69%, this may not reflect a level of enthusiasm that could fuel exponential growth at the box office.

It seems entirely possible that Boy Kills World will lose money, or at least barely scrape together a profit. Another factor that isn’t working in its favor is that the summer movie season is heating up in May beginning with the rival action-comedy The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. That competing title may steal away action-hungry audience members who could otherwise have decided to see the Skarsgård movie in its second weekend.

Source: Deadline

Boy Kills World

Boy Kills World is an action thriller film by director Moritz Mohr, released in 2024. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, a young man simply known as “Boy” lives through terrible trauma after his family is killed by a woman named Hilda Van Der Koy, who currently rules the land. Now older and more bloodthirsty than ever, Boy heads into the fray to claim revenge while liberating the world from her tyrannical grasp.

Director

Moritz Mohr

Release Date

April 26, 2024

Studio(s)

Nthibah Pictures , Hammerstone Studios , Ventaro Film

Distributor(s)

Capstone Global

Writers

Tyler Burton Smith , Arend Remmers , Moritz Mohr

Cast

Bill Skarsgard , Famke Janssen , Jessica Rothe , Michelle Dockery , Brett Gelman , Isaiah Mustafa , Yayan Ruhian , Nicholas Crovetti

Runtime

115 Minutes