![]() Mediocre at best, it suggests this won’t be an ongoing horror franchise like the lucrative “Resident Evil.” That’s just under half of its predecessor in early 2019. “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” (Sony) placed third with $8.8 million. The studio released no numbers for home viewing, though indications from initial charts suggest strong play. “A Quiet Place Part II” added PVOD ($19.99) and Paramount+ (free for subscribers) this week while losing theaters, but it fell only 27 percent. That could be attributed in part to Ontario finally opening the province usually provides about 4 percent of the North American gross. A comparison to the same weekend in 2019, when “The Lion King” opened, is terrible, but a rolling, year-over-year, four-week comparison improved to 58 percent from 55 percent. The best news of the weekend is it’s the first since reopening to feature two films that grossed over $25 million. The 1996 “Space Jam” earlier opened to around $60 million, adjusted. The budget for the live-action/animation hybrid is a reported $150 million. The basketball comedy for a new NBA generation (LeBron James instead of Michael Jordan in the 1996 version) opened during the sport’s championship (though without its star’s involvement) and as Team USA gears up for the Olympics. ![]() Per Warners, 58 percent of the audience was Black or Latino. This came despite bad reviews and alternative viewing. Kong, which opened on a Wednesday), and ahead of all the other family films. The surprise #1 “Space Jam” is the fourth biggest opening weekend (just ahead of “Godzilla vs. (Best among them is “Cruella,” which is a borderline PG-13.) Nearly all did better than expected and all opened with home availability except for “Peter Rabbit.” Most held better than films aimed at older audiences. “Space Jam” reaffirmed the hunger for family films, which are responsible for five of the 10 best grosses for 2021. 'The Banshees of Inisherin' Joins 'Till' in Top 10 Titles, but Specialized Is a StruggleĤ2 Great Films That Failed at the Box Officeīrendan Fraser and Colin Farrell Stand Out Among New Batch of Best Actor Contenders In a PVOD Void, 'Top Gun: Maverick' Is Back at #1 - but 'Ticket to Paradise' Looms The availability was the same at opening, so why would it be more of a factor in the second week than in the first? If it's Wuxia, Nat puts up a good fight but Minerva eventually wears her down and takes her apart.As to why, it seems unfair to blame it on PVOD. If it takes place in the spy genre, then Nat pulls out a pistol and the fight is hard but ends with Minerva shot in the heart. Who wins depends entirely on which genre the fight takes place in. The Badlands are a gun free zone for a reason, it's the only way the Badlands can exist as a setting.īasically, Nat belongs to the Cold War spy genre. But if Natasha has guns, that gives her an insurmountable advantage. Natasha is good, but she's not a Wuxia character. In a pure martial arts duel, Natasha would lose. ![]() Natasha has guns, and is trained to use them. Minerva is fast, but she's not bullet-dodging fast, and literally no one in the Badlands has experience with firearms. They explicitly don't exist so that conflicts can be solved by martial arts duels instead of shootouts and so that personal kung fu skill can be the main source of military power in the setting. Into the Badlands is set in post-apocalyptic Wuxia America where firearms explicitly don't exist. Natasha has something that's fairly OP in the Into the Badlands setting.
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