Lionsgate‘s Michael continued its dance party into yesterday, Tuesday, where the Antoine Fuqua directed feature rang up $11.1M. For a live-action movie in April, that’s the fourth best Tuesday ever behind Disney Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame ($33.1M, April 30, 2019), Universal’s Furious 7 ($13.3M, April 7, 2025) and last April’s A Minecraft Movie from Warner Bros and Legendary ($12.7M, April 8, 2025).
Among all Tuesdays in April, Michael ranks sixth: Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie and Super Mario Galaxy Movie muscle their way into the day’s rankings with respective Tuesday takes of $15.4M (April 11, 2023) and $14.7M (April 7, 2026).
The running cume through yesterday for Michael is $116M and it will soon topple Lionsgate’s The Housemaid‘s domestic take of $126.4M by Friday, as well as the studio’s Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes ($166.3M) and potentially John Wick: Chapter 4 ($187.1M) by Sunday to become Lionsgate’s highest grossing movie stateside at the post-Covid box office.
Second weekend estimates for Michael are between $45M-$50M, around a -50% hold or better in the face of 20th Century Studios/Disney’s highly anticipated female-skewing The Devil Wears Prada 2 which is eyeing $73M-$80M. The David Frankel directed movie notched 76% certified fresh with critics, which bodes well for the movie, a rating that’s on par to the original 2006 movie which was 75% certified fresh. Devil Wears Prada received a B CinemaScore back in the day, but was a huge hit grossing $124.7M domestic, $326.5M.