Glass is a $20 million-budgeted, self-financed, distribution-only flick that just nabbed a $40.5 million Fri-Sun/$48.06m Fri-Mon debut weekend. There’s a lot of context to discuss, but for the record, this is a $20m superhero flick that just nabbed a $90m global opening weekend, which is a record global bow for M. Night Shyamalan. Universal/Comcast, which distributed Glass in North America, swore that it wouldn’t open any higher than $50 million for the four-day weekend, and they were correct. But a $20 million sequel to a $9m horror title and a $75m-budgeted cult superhero flick just earned $89.1m in its worldwide opening weekend. As a box office pundit, I believe that better reviews and better buzz would have led to a bigger opening.

Source: Forbes January 20, 2019 15:56 UTC