The first weekend of August begins with DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s Bad Guys 2 stealing $2.25M from showtimes that began yesterday at 2PM, which is higher than the first Bad Guys‘ $1.15M Thursday which turned into a near $8M first day and $23.9M in a recovering post Covid box office. The outlook on Bad Guys 2 in regards to tracking was $20M.
Production cost on Bad Guys 2 is $80M net, $10M higher than the 2022 movie, which repped a rebound for the Covid box office, that pic ultimately minting $97.4M domestic, $152.9M worldwide.
Paramount, on the precipice of its Aug 7. merger with Skydance, is trying to bring the big screen comedy back alive with their reboot of 1980s classic The Naked Gun, that Liam Neeson-Pamela Anderson movie doing $1.6M. Comedy comps are hard, but The Naked Gun isn’t that far from Sony’s R-rated Jennifer Lawrence movie, No Hard Feelings, which did $2.15M on its Thursday (4PM start-time) previews which turned into a $ 6.3M Friday and $15M 3-day. That’s what hoped for here on this Akiva Schaffer directed, Seth MacFarlane produced redo.
Alison Brie and Dave Franco in ‘Together’
Neon
NEON’s wide release of the Dave Franco-Alison Brie romantic horror movie, Together, grossed $ 1.35m in its second day at the box office for a running cume of $ 4m. The forecast is $8M-$10M for the movie which NEON snapped up for $16M out of Sundance. The last 5-day genre movie which comes to mind is A24’s Midsummer, and Together, which has higher Rotten Tomatoes critics and audience scores (91% critics/79% audience to Midsummer‘s 83% critics/63% audience) is currently $300K behind that Ari Aster film.
It’s all about the second weekend of Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four which ends the week with $ 158.3M after an estimated $7.4M Thursday, -14% from Wednesday. Second frame outlook is $45M-$47Mwhich is around -61% decline.
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