The first weekend of August begins with DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s Bad Guys 2 stealing $2.25M from showtimes that began yesterday at 2PM, which is higher than the first Bad Guys‘ $1.15M Thursday which turned into a near $8M first day and $23.9M in a recovering post Covid box office. The outlook on Bad Guys 2 in regards to tracking was $20M.
Production cost on Bad Guys 2 is $80M net, $10M higher than the 2022 movie, which repped a rebound for the Covid box office, that pic ultimately minting $97.4M domestic, $152.9M worldwide. Bad Guys Rotten Tomatoes critics score is 85% fresh which is 3 points under the 88% certified fresh of the first film.
Paramount, on the precipice of its Aug 7. merger with Skydance, is trying to bring the big screen comedy back alive with their reboot of 1980s classic The Naked Gun, that Liam Neeson-Pamela Anderson movie doing $1.6M. Comedy comps are hard, but The Naked Gun isn’t that far from Sony’s R-rated Jennifer Lawrence movie, No Hard Feelings, which did $2.15M on its Thursday (4PM start-time) previews which turned into a $6.3M Friday and $15M 3-day at 3,344 sites. That’s what hoped for here on this Akiva Schaffer directed, Seth MacFarlane produced redo. Net production cost is $42M.
The Naked Gun had a good night in PostTrak exits with 4 1/2 stars and a 73% definite recommend. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film won over critics, an impossible feat when it comes to comedy, at 90% certified fresh with an 87% audience score.
Alison Brie and Dave Franco in ‘Together’
Neon
NEON’s wide release of the Dave Franco-Alison Brie romantic horror movie, Together, grossed $1.35M in its second day at the box office for a running cume of $4M. The forecast is $8M-$10M over 5-days for the movie which NEON snapped up for $16M out of Sundance. The last 5-day genre movie which comes to mind is A24’s Midsommar, and Together, which has higher Rotten Tomatoes critics and audience scores (91% critics/79% audience to Midsommar‘s 83% critics/63% audience) is currently $300K behind that Ari Aster film. As we told you yesterday, Together gets a C+ CinemaScore, same grade as Midsommar.
It’s all about the second weekend of Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps which ends the week with $158.3M after an estimated $7.4M Thursday, -14% from Wednesday. Second frame outlook is $45M-$47M for the net $200M budgeted movie, which is around -61% decline. The Matt Shakman directed movie keeps all the premium screens.
Gowtam Tinnanuri’s Kingdom opened yesterday making $1.1M at 360 locations. The pic follows an undercover cop who is plunged into Sri Lanka on a covert mission to dismantle a powerful syndicate. He learns the mastermind is his estranged brother, forcing him to confront family loyalty, and the moral cost of duty.
Here’s the top 5
1.) Fantastic Four: First Steps (Dis) 4,125 theaters, Thu $7.4M (-14% from Wed), Week $158.3M/Wk 1
2.) Superman (WB) 3,930 theaters, Thu $2.66M (-10%), Wk $37.7M (-57%), Total $302.3M/Wk 3
3.) Jurassic World Rebirth (Uni) 3,550 theaters, Thu $1.54M (-7%), Wk $20.3M (-43%), Total $308.9M/Wk 4
Let the record show that 2025 now has four movies that grossed north of $300M at the domestic B.O., also inclusive of Superman, Lilo & Stitch and A Minecraft Movie.
4.) F1 (Apple/WB) 2,615 theaters, Thu $750K (-13%), Wk $9.8M (-36%), Total $169.1M/Wk 5
5.) Smurfs (Par) 3,504 theaters, Thu $715K (-28%), Week $9.3M (-15%), Total $26.7M/Wk 2
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