Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 3, starring longtime leading man Denzel Washington, opened to $42.8M over the Labor Day weekend. The Friday-Saturday-Sunday box office totaled $34.6M, sans the holiday Monday gross of $8.2M, nearly matching the opening performance of the first installment released in 2014.
The Equalizer had a domestic box office of $34.1M when it opened in late Sept. 2014. Eventually, the film would go on to collect a domestic cume of $101.5M and $90.8M internationally.
The second installment released in theaters four years later on July 20, 2018, exceeding its predecessor with a domestic opening of $36M. The sequel had a silver screen lifecycle that returned a box office consistent with The Equalizer, $102.1M and $88.3M in domestic and international grosses, respectively.
Projections for The Equalizer 3 appear to be on the same track as the franchise’s prior films, and although the action flicks have consequently become an easy money grab for the legendary Fuqua-Washington partnership, the third installment marks the final chapter of the collective. The veteran actor and incomparable director have worked with each other on Magnificent Seven and Training Day, a film in which Washington won his first Best Actor Oscar — in 1990, he won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Glory.
In The Equalizer 3, Washington returns as Robert McCall, a former government assassin who is coerced out of retirement when a crime organization causes havoc for a tight-knit community in Southern Italy. Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, Andrea Scarduzio, David Denman, and Gaia Scodellaro make up the cast.
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