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.
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. That’s what hoped for here on this Akiva Schaffer directed, Seth MacFarlane produced redo.
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