And, since it’s a fun, well-made little movie, it’s proof that Sony can make decent tentpole-ish movies outside of the Spider-Man or James Bond franchises. Universal knew they weren’t getting a repeat of Pitch Perfect 2’s $69m debut weekend (or $288m worldwide cume) when they plopped this one in Christmas. The question is whether it plays like Sing, whereby they get a much smaller opening weekend but much longer legs. That sets the movie up for a miserable $6.3 million Fri-Mon debut weekend. The R-rated comedy earned just $1.365 million on Friday for a $3.2m Fri-Sun/$5m Fri-Mon debut weekend, and a likely swift grave soon thereafter.

Source: Forbes December 24, 2017 15:56 UTC