Blumhouse may have just released its first box office success of 2025. The production company first rose to prominence as the team behind the Paranormal Activity franchise, a series of found footage movies that has collectively grossed more than $890 million worldwide. Since then, they have become best known for their horror offerings that typically offer solid return-on-investment from slim budgets such as the Purge movies, the Insidious franchise, and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, which won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
In recent years, other Blumhouse movies have become major hits, including M3GAN ($181 million against a $12 million budget), Halloween Kills ($133.4 million against $20 million), and Five Nights at Freddy’s ($297.1 million against $20 million). However, their track record is not perfect, and they have also put out flops like AfrAID ($13 million against $12 million). They kicked off 2025 with one of these flops, as the Universal monster remake Wolf Man, which was helmed by The Invisible Man’s Leigh Whannell, only grossed $34.9 million against its $25 million budget.
The Woman In The Yard Has Had A Promising Debut

The Movie Has A Slimmer Budget Than Wolf Man

The Woman in the Yard could become Blumhouse’s first box office hit of the year. The new movie, which was helmed by Orphan and House of Wax director Jaume Collet-Serra, follows widowed mother Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler), whose post-car-accident recovery is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious, menacing woman draped in black who sits in her yard and announces that “today’s the day.” The Woman in the Yard release kicked off on a busy weekend at the box office, opposite other new releases such as A Working Man and Death of a Unicorn.

Jaume Collet-Serra recently directed the smash hit Netflix thriller Carry-On, which also starred Danielle Deadwyler.

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, The Woman in the Yard is projected to earn a 3-day opening weekend total of $9 million at the domestic box office. It is projected to debut at No. 4 on the domestic chart for the weekend, behind The Chosen: Last Supper Part 1 ($12 million), Snow White ($13.7 million in weekend 2), and A Working Man ($15.6 million). While this opening weekend gross falls below Wolf Man’s debut of $10.9 million, the movie is nevertheless potentially on track to become a solid success because it only comes with a reported $12 million budget.
What This Means For The Woman In The Yard

It Could Have A Bright Future

Because The Woman in the Yard only cost $12 million and movies typically need to earn back two-and-a-half times their budgets, this most likely places its break-even point somewhere around $30 million. If it follows the trajectory of Wolf Man, it will most likely earn $28.8 by the end of its run, which would fall just short of that milestone. However, Wolf Man had an unusually catastrophic week 2 drop of 70.2%, which is something that the new movie could potentially avoid, putting it on track to turn a profit.
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Source: Deadline

The Woman In The Yard

Release Date

March 28, 2025

Director

Jaume Collet-Serra

Writers

Sam Stefanak

Producers

James Moran, Jason Blum, Stephanie Allain, Danielle Deadwyler