Box Office Trends Of Friday The 13th 2009 To Blame For No Warner Bros. Sequel?

With a potential new Paramount Friday The 13th film on the horizon and about seven and a half years passed since Friday The 13th 2009 was released in theaters, we thought all fans could take a look at how the much debated 2009 movie fared throughout the first six weeks of it's theatrical run (This was pretty much the entire run of the film). I know that we are all aware of how much the movie dropped off after opening weekend, but this movie still made a lot of money considering the genre and the fact that it’s a franchise that is over 30 years old. If the movie had grossed $20 million opening weekend and then went on to gain a final gross of close to $64 million, then the movie would have been seen by everyone as a bigger success with more longevity.

Only the fact that the film made so much money upfront and had a historic drop-off in Week 2 did cynics and detractors of the franchise pan the movie as a sort of creative failure. We still believe Warner Bros. saw the potential of the franchise, but the question has always lingered of why the company never went forward with a direct sequel to the 2009 film. Could it have been the steep drop in box office business?

Below is a table of information showing the weekly grosses of the latest Friday The 13th. By looking at this, perhaps fans might be able to see why a huge company would be wary of putting out a new movie with how the 2009 film tapered off into oblivion so quickly? Do you think this was THE determining factor in not getting a sequel fast tracked in 2010, or just one part of many reasons?

Date	Rank	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theaters	Change / Avg.		Gross-to-Date	Week #
Feb 13–16	1	$43,585,449	-	3,105	-	$14,037	$43,585,449	1
Feb 20–22	6	$7,942,472	-80.4%	3,105	-	$2,558	$55,119,663	2
Feb 27–Mar 1	11	$3,689,156	-53.6%	2,760	-345	$1,337	$60,700,752	3
Mar 6–8	14	$1,444,126	-60.9%	1,705	-1,055	$847	$63,285,318	4
Mar 13–15	17	$595,165	-58.8%	780	-925	$763	$64,361,909	5
Mar 20–22	30	$145,786	-75.5%	305	-475	$478	$64,701,486	6