Not solely is Warner Bros.’ Wonka one in every of Mashable’s finest films of 2023, but it surely’s additionally on its strategy to turning into a field workplace champion.

The origin story of Roald Dahl’s famed chocolatier — delivered to whimsical life by Timothée Chalamet and Paddington director Paul King — took in $14.4 million on its opening day within the US, in keeping with Selection. By the top of its debut weekend, it is anticipated to absorb $35 million. The movie marks Chalamet’s second number-one movie on the field workplace (2021’s Dune was his first).

Given Wonka‘s $125 million manufacturing price range (not together with its publicity prices), the movie nonetheless has an extended strategy to go earlier than it turns a revenue, although. Nonetheless, Selection notes that Wonka is outperforming different current film musicals that struggled on the field workplace, together with West Aspect Story and Within the Heights. Might this be a very good signal for Warner Bros.’ subsequent musical The Shade Purple?

Elsewhere, The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is poised to take second place on the field workplace, whereas Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron falls to 3rd after its primary debut final weekend. (That is the primary time a Miyazaki movie has achieved that feat within the US.) Fourth place will go to Kaiju-epic Godzilla Minus One, and Trolls Band Collectively will shut out the highest 5.