‘The Bad Guys’ Loots Box Office With $24 Million Opening
24.04.2022 - 21:17
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The Bad Guys” has risen above pre-release projections to snatch the No. 1 spot at the box office from Warner Bros.’ “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” with a $24 million opening weekend from 4,003 theaters.
It’s a far lower start than the $72 million opening of “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” a couple weeks ago or the $50 million opening of DreamWorks’ “The Boss Baby” back in 2017, but “The Bad Guys” will have a chance to leg out a profit against its reported $70 million production budget as it will be the last family film on the release slate until Pixar’s “Lightyear” comes out in mid-June. Internationally, the film has already grossed $63 million from 50 markets, giving it a global total of $87.1 million.Reception has been strong for “The Bad Guys” with an A on CinemaScore and Rotten Tomatoes scores of 85% critics and 93% audience.
Families made up 58% of the opening weekend audience with 30% parents and 16% kids under the age of 10. If “Bad Guys” legs out, it will likely be because of those families with younger kids as no film on the May slate will directly compete for that audience subset.
Focus Features’ “The Northman” and Lionsgate’s “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” will also need strong word-of-mouth to leg out any sort of profit, though the road is much tougher for those films than it is for “The Bad Guys.” “The Northman,” a gory R-rated Viking revenge epic, has taken in a $12 million domestic opening from 3,234 theaters for the No. 4 spot on the charts while “Massive Talent,” starring Nicolas Cage, has only earned $7.1 million.Audience reception for both films is solid but not as strong as “The Bad Guys,” with “The Northman” earning a B on CinemaScore and a 67% RT audience score while the comedic
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