Obsession earned an estimated $871,380 Thursday and reached $249,522,400 domestically after 56 days, with The Numbers recording declines of 22 percent from Wednesday and 45 percent from the previous Thursday; the cited chart had not yet carried the film across $250 million. [1]

The daily sum looks small beside the cumulative, but that contrast reveals the economics of retention: continued theater availability and sufficient demand kept adding receipts after launch coverage moved on, allowing ordinary late-run days rather than one dramatic opening headline to build nearly a quarter-billion-dollar domestic run.

Box Office Mojo provides the worldwide yearly ranking in which such totals are commonly compared, yet neither domestic cumulative nor worldwide position establishes profit because exhibitor shares, production, marketing and distribution costs remain outside these sources. [2]

Searches for box-office milestone reactions found no verified X post about Thursday's $249.5 million estimate, so no victory claim can be attributed before a total that remained $477,600 short and subject to revision actually crosses the threshold.

Another ordinary day could clear the threshold, but the 56-day run already shows that endurance rather than opening velocity produced the total through weeks of retained screens at less than $1 million a day, leaving the chart to define when the threshold is crossed and later revenue and costs to determine the eventual commercial judgment without an unsupported profit claim.

-- CHARLES ASHFORD, London