Alexander Skarsgård’s Wicker opened to a modest $5.75 million domestically. The fantasy romance’s strong reviews, lean budget, and upcoming international rollout suggest the movie is positioned for a healthy theatrical run rather than a disappointing one.
How Wicker performed at box office
Wicker pulled in $5.75 million over its three-day domestic debut, playing in 1,471 theaters and finishing at No. 5 on the weekend chart. Alexander Skarsgård’s film landed behind Clayface (No. 1), You Can See Everything (No. 2), Wildwood (No. 3), and Street Fighter (No. 4), per Box Office Mojo.
That No. 5 placement undersells the result. Wicker posted a per-screen average of $3,908, which let it outrank several larger-budget titles running in far more locations, like Other Mommy, Sense and Sensibility, and Whalefall, among them. The math looks even better against the film’s reported $10 million budget. One weekend of domestic grosses has already returned more than half that number. Its exact break-even point isn’t public, but it almost certainly sits below the standard studio benchmark of 2.5x the budget—putting it under $25 million.
Moreover, Wicker carries a Certified Fresh 95% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 92% audience score, which should drive word of mouth through its domestic run. The film, co-written and co-directed by Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer, adapts Ursula Wills’ short story, The Wicker Husband. Olivia Colman plays a lonely fisherwoman who commissions a basket weaver (Peter Dinklage) to build her a husband; the living wicker man (Skarsgård) then upends the whole town with his extraordinariness.
If not also just the domestic reception of the story, international territories add another runway. The U.S.-U.K.-Australia co-production has only opened in America so far, with the U.K. release on October 30 and Australia on November 5. No major wide releases hit theaters in its second weekend either, giving Wicker space to keep earning before November competition arrives. A $5 million start, in other words, is not bad news at all.
