Disney’sHaunted Mansionhas been continuing a recent trend of box office disappointments for the House of Mouse. However, the horror comedy film has finally passed a major milestone at the ticket booth, as the project has now generated $100 million at the global box office. According to the most recent figures,Haunted Mansionhas brought in $64 million at the domestic box office and $36 million internationally, finally hitting the triple-digit mark after its sixth weekend in theaters. Despite underperforming in the United States, the film is still doing well in a number of other territories.Haunted Mansion’spush past $100 million was aided by the film opening this weekend in Japan, one of the last major international markets to receive the project. In its opening three days in Japan,Haunted Mansionearned an estimated $3.2 million and was the country’s highest-grossing film of the weekend. This beat the Japanese openings of both Paramount’sDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thievesearlier this year and Sony’sGhostbusters: Afterlifein 2021.
The film also had strong holdover weekends in the United Kingdom and France, where it earned $1.2 million and $1.8 million, respectively. The former’s strengthening British box office weekend was likely aided by the U.K.’s National Cinema Day on September 2, during which participating theaters across the country saw significantly reduced ticket prices.
‘Haunted Mansion’ Faced Steep Competition at the Summer Box Office
Haunted Mansionwas likely destined to face an uphill battle, given that it opened in the U.S. on July 28, just one week after Universal’sOppenheimerand Warner Bros.‘Barbie.The well-documented “Barbenheimer” phenomenon has been charged with reinvigorating cinema and helped push the American summer box officepast $4 billionfor the first time since 2019. Along with competition from other decently-performing summer flicks like Paramount’sMission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One,combined with the fact that the film was released months prior to the Halloween “spooky season,” it’s not hard to see whyHaunted Mansionhas come up short at the box office.
While the film still has a ways to goto recoup its budget, one thing thatHaunted Mansiondoes have going for it is the staying power of an A-list cast. Based on the Disney Parks attraction of the same name,Haunted MansionstarsLaKeith Stanfieldas an astrophysicist who is sent to investigate ghostly happenings at the recently purchased mansion ofRosario Dawsonand discovers there may be more to the manor than meets the eye.Haunted Mansionalso starsOwen Wilson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tiffany Haddish, Danny DeVito,andJared Letoas the voice of the film’s antagonist, the Hatbox Ghost.Haunted Mansionwas directed byJustin Simienfrom a screenplay byKatie Dippold, withSimien telling Collider the filming process was"truly a bonding, fun, familial experience." The film was a joint production between Walt Disney Studios and Rideback, with the latter’sJonathan EirichandDan Linproducing.
