The Dog Stars closed its opening weekend with a $2.2M Sunday, down 21.4% from Saturday's $2.8M — an entirely ordinary Friday-to-Sunday taper that leaves the three-day domestic total at $8.0M. The worldwide gross, already at $19.3M, is now more than double the domestic figure.
A weekend this ordinary domestically wouldn't be worth a second look if the international number weren't this lopsided.
Saturday's article flagged Ridley Scott's overseas pull as unusually large even two days in; a full weekend confirms it wasn't a fluke. Domestic followed a normal, unremarkable curve — no big Friday spike, no Saturday collapse, just a clean step-down each day. That's a fine outcome for a director whose films regularly find a bigger audience abroad than at home, but it also means the US side hasn't produced any real surprise, positive or negative, through the full opening frame.
No budget figure is confirmed yet, so there's no recovery math available. What the weekend does establish is the split: this is shaping up as an international release with a modest domestic footprint, not the reverse.
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