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Welcome back one and all to the weekly box office report! As is always the case, each and every Sunday you can expect a look at what made the most money in theaters, as well as just how all of the new releases fared. This week, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence continue to bring in fans with Bad Boys for Life, going up against new releases The Gentlemen, The Last Full Measure, and The Turning, plus another week of the hit that is 1917.

STX’s “The Gentlemen” proved no match for Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life,” which again left box office competitors in the dust after collecting $34 million in its sophomore outing.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are showing plenty of staying power at North American multiplexes with about $31 million, estimates showed Saturday.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

It will be a battle of the boys at the box office this weekend as STX’s action drama “The Gentlemen” takes on reigning champs, Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life.”

Robert Downey Jr.’s first role after his final “Avengers” appearance is projected to lose roughly $100 million after a weak performance at the box office over the holiday weekend.

“Bad Boys for Life” has given a jolt to the North American box office, blasting past forecasts with a $73.4 million opening over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

Sony’s “Bad Boys” franchise proved a 17-year gap between installments means little for the right property.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) — Universal’s Dolittle and 1917 found out what Bad Boys will do when they come for you at the box office. Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, the third entry in the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence-led series, beat expectations and towered over the competition during the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.

Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life,” the third entry in the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence-led action series, ruled over the global box office and is expected to cross the $100 million mark through the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

Welcome back one and all to the weekly box office report! As is always the case, each and every Sunday you can expect a look at what made the most money in theaters, as well as just how all of the new releases fared. This week, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return to their buddy cop franchise with Bad Boys for Life, going up against Robert Downey Jr. and his Dolittle remake, as well as another week of surprise hit 1917. How did they all do? Read on to see how the weekend turned out…

By Nancy Tartaglione

Universal’s “Dolittle” and “1917” found out what “Bad Boys” will do when they come for you at the box office. Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life,” the third entry in the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence-led series, beat expectations and towered over the competition during the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.

In another win for Sony Pictures, Bad Boys for Life is laughing much louder than expected in its North American box office debut while, across town, Dolittle is going to the dogs for Universal.Bad Boys for Life, reteaming Will Smith and Martin Lawrence after a 17-year-hiatus, grossed $23.5 million on Friday for a projected $66 million to $68 million debut over the four-day Martin Luther King Jr.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are reportedly poised to return to the Bad Boys franchise for another sequel following the projected box office success of the new Bad Boys For Life.

Think you have what it takes to be a Bad Boy for life? Will Smith put a few strangers to the test in his "Bad Boys for Lyft" challenge in Miami, Fla., where the action film star embodied his Bad Boys For Life character detective Mike Lowrey and evaluated who could fill in as his partner in crime played by Martin Lawrence's character Marcus Burnett.The selected passengers thought they signed up to test some new, unreleased Lyft tech features, but a joy ride in the new 2020 Porsche Taycan awaited

With his towering height and stature, Alexander Ludwig looks every bit the action star, first appearing as Cato in “The Hunger Games,” and more recently as fierce Norse Viking chief Bjorn Ironside on History Channel’s “Vikings” and in “Bad Boys for Life,” the third installment of the “Bad Boys” franchise, with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. 

“Bad Boys for Life” is showing plenty of power at the North American box office with an impressive  launch of around $66 million at 3,740 venues over the four-day holiday weekend.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence starrer Bad Boys for Life's box office collection report is here. The movie may become the second-best or the best MLK weekend opening of all-time at the box office. As per Deadline's report, the estimated collection of four-day gross could be around USD 63 million to 67 million. And as per the same reports, the movie has already minted around USD 23 million on its opening day.

The last time Will Smith and Martin Lawrence teamed up as detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Bennett it was in 2003’s Bad Boys II. Now Columbia is hoping there’s still and audience for a big action buddy comedy as it releases Bad Boys For Life.As they find themselves much older than when they started on the police force, Lowrey and Bennett are on the cusp of taking very different paths.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back in the latest installment of their action-comedy franchise, Bad Boys for Life—and the accompanying soundtrack just dropped. The tracklist includes the previously released single, “RITMO (Bad Boys for Life).” This is the first Bad Boys film since 2003’s Bad Boys II.

Bad Boys for Life made quite an impression at the Thursday box office, earning a January-best $6.4 million in previews.The threequel, reteaming Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, opens 17 years after the last installment in Sony's action comedy franchise. The R-rated pic is tracking to earn $38 million to $50 million over the long Martin Luther King Jr.

Way back in 1995 ‘Bad Boys’ came out and shook the world.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reprise their roles as Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett in Bad Boys for Life, the latest installment in the action-packed franchise, which is set to hit theaters Friday.It’s been 17 years since Bad Boys II was released, so the stars and execs behind the third film dished on what fans could expect.“If you just do a copy, then people aren’t going to be as interested. You have to continue the evolution of these characters ...

We are only midway through January, and the year is already shaping up to be stellar for reggaetonero-turned-actor Nicky Jam. He is starring alongside Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys for Life, and it was just announced that he will be recognized for all of his contributions to Urbano music (spanning back to the ‘90s) at the second annual Premios Tu Música Urbano in Puerto Rico on March 5, 2020.

Traditionally, the third movie in a trilogy or longer series is usually not the best compared to the others, right?

“Bad Boys for Life” is the sort of thing I suspect we’re going to be seeing more and more of: the sequel to a long-done franchise that may now be an all-too-obvious cash grab and infusion of movie-star brand enhancement, but doesn’t play like one. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence bring their A game; they never let us feel like they’re going through the motions. The marks may be standard issue, but they hit them with fury and flair.

The franchise could have looked differently.

Will Smith is opening up about his feelings toward his wife Jada Pinkett Smith‘s deep connection to rapper Tupac Shakur.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence abandoned plans to complete all the stunt work in the new Bad Boys movie after realizing they were no match for action professionals.