Blumhouse and Universal’s Black Christmas earned a frankly miserable $1.8 million on Friday, including $230,000 in Thursday previews. Yes, the film cost $5 million to produce and yes it opened a little better than Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, but this is a tragedy. It’s sadly Universal’s second disappointing Christmas flick after Paul Feig and Emma Thompson’s Last Christmas (which, to be fair, may break even thanks to decent overseas numbers). As for Black Christmas, I’d argue that this is a case where Blumhouse and friends would have been better off ditching the IP and just selling and outright original horror movie that merely ripped off Black Christmas. The eventual reviews weren’t glowing, but A) it’s a horror movie and B) it had enough fans in the horror community that word might have spread earlier.

Source: Forbes December 14, 2019 16:46 UTC