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    "articleBody": "Wicker, the fable in which Olivia Colman orders a husband woven by a basket maker and gets Alexander Skarsgård, took about $5.75 million in North America from Friday, October 23, to Sunday, October 25. That placed it fifth on the weekend chart from 1,471 theaters, the first stage of a rollout that widens across the US on Friday, October 30, the same day the film opens in UK cinemas. For a film made for a reported $10 million, the number lands inside the $5.5 million to $6 million range some forecasters gave it, and below the $6 million to $8 million that other tracking suggested. The audience reaction has been stronger than the gross. Moviegoers on Rotten Tomatoes rated it at 94% from more than 100 ratings, the highest audience score of Skarsgård’s film career, level with the 2023 film Lee. Critics on the same site are at 94% from 117 reviews, and Metacritic scores it 70 out of 100. A cardboard cutout did half the marketing Before a ticket was sold, the film had a running joke. In the week before release, cinemagoers began posting TikTok clips of themselves pretending to “steal” a life-size standee of Skarsgård in his woven costume from cinema lobbies, captioned “Oh yeah, you’re coming home with me.” No cinema has reported a cutout actually going missing; the clips are staged. Regal leaned in from the other direction. Since October 8 it has offered free 3D-print files for a popcorn bucket shaped like the wicker husband’s torso, and anyone who brings a printed one to a Regal screening gets a free small popcorn. The bucket is not sold at concession stands. The costume behind all of this is practical, not digital. Wētā Workshop built a 30-pound wicker shell fitted over a 3D-printed copy of Skarsgård’s body, with only small digital touches around the eyes. How the top five compare, screen by screen A fifth-place finish can hide how hard each cinema is working. Dividing each film’s weekend gross by its theater count gives a rough per-screen average: You Can See Everything: $19.5 million over 2,655 theaters, about $7,345 each Clayface: $24 million over 3,458 theaters, about $6,940 each Wicker: $5.75 million over 1,471 theaters, about $3,909 each Wildwood: $11 million over 2,942 theaters, about $3,739 each Street Fighter: $8.6 million over 3,575 theaters, about $2,406 each On that measure Wicker sits in the middle of the pack, a little ahead of Laika’s new film and well behind the two films that fought for first place. Its case rests less on the opening than on what the wider release does next week. From Sundance to the multiplex in nine months Writer-directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson adapted the film from Ursula Wills’s short story “The Wicker Husband.” Colman, who also produced, plays the Fisherwoman; Peter Dinklage is the Basket Weaver, and Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, Nabhaan Rizwan and Richard E. Grant fill out the village. Dev Patel was the original co-star before Skarsgård replaced him, and the shoot took place in Budapest. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on January 24, 2026, where it drew two standing ovations. Black Bear Pictures, which was already selling it internationally, picked up North American rights in February at the European Film Market. It closed the Sitges Film Festival on October 18, five days before its US opening. For Skarsgård, best known to television viewers as the vampire Eric Northman in True Blood, it extends a run of well-reviewed roles after Pillion, which critics on Rotten Tomatoes rated at 99%. Release dates by country Black Bear is staging a one-night 4DX event on Wednesday, October 28, and some of those showtimes have already sold out. The film then goes nationwide in the US and opens in the UK and Ireland on Friday, October 30, through Black Bear. Australian audiences follow on November 5, when Roadshow Films releases it there. Further reading Wikipedia: Wicker (film) Image: Claire Fridkin, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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