That includes $3.4m in Thursday previews and compares quite favorably with the $10m opening day of Kingsman: The Secret Service back in February of 2015. Star Trek into Darkness needed four days to earn $83m via a Thurs-Sun debut while Star Trek opened with $79m in its Fri-Sun debut weekend. Considering that sequels, even sequels explicitly opening in September, have a coin toss track record of topping their predecessors on opening weekend and beyond, that Kingsman 2 virtually tied the opening weekend of Kingsman 1 counts as a win. The spin-off of WB’s LEGO theatrical franchise lacked the novelty of the first LEGO Movie and the Batman bump for The LEGO Batman Movie, and the reviews were (justifiably) pretty lousy. Not to be mean, but this one was about as bad as we all presumed The LEGO Movie would be before that one screened for press.

Source: Forbes September 23, 2017 14:37 UTC