This is no joke. ‘ sequel has made history by becoming the the first Hollywood comic book movie to earn a D CinemaScore from audiences. Exit polls are equally as grim as audiences express their unhappiness with the sequel.
That unhappiness is translating into a troubled opening at the , where the Warner Bros. movie is coming in well behind expectations. The divisive sequel earned a soft $20 million on Friday, including $7 million in previews, for a projected launch south of $50 million.
Rival studios show the – film opening anywhere from $42 million to $47 million (one studio even thinks $40 million or less). Heading into the weekend, was expected to do $50 million to $60 million. That was down from the $70 million when the pic first came on tracking.
In 2019, debuted to a dreamy $96.2 million on its way to a record-shattering worldwide total of $1 billion. Phillips’ polarizing, R-rated sequel — which made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival to — is a genre-busting, music-infused film that strays outside the comfort zone of the typical fanboy-fueled comic book pic.
More worrisome than Thursday’s night gross is terrible exit scores on PostTrak, with audiences giving it a half-star out of five, similar to the Thursday night score for Francis Ford Coppola’s , which bombed in spectacular fashion last weekend with $4 million after earning a D+ CinemaScore. ( ‘s PostTrak could ultimately change as the weekend goes on.) While 2019’s earned comparisons to.