Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and The Bad Guys overperform against expectations, as Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore starts to sink.
There’s plenty of good box office news around for Hollywood movie studios at the moment. Sony’s enjoyed a hit with the critically panned
Morbius, whilst the Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum-headlined
The Lost City is bringing in sizeable audiences globally.
Yet it’s with family movies where, in America in particular, the box office has been surging.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 now sits at nearly $300m worldwide and should clear $400m by the time its run is complete, a financial upgrade on its predecessor (the third film is already on the way). Then, DreamWorks Animation’s
The Bad Guys enjoyed a better than expected opening in the States over the weekend, helping itself to $24m. Films are, for the first time in a while, overperforming against expectations.
Itās given hope for a bumper box office summer, but it’s also thrown into sharp focus the struggles of the
Fantastic Beasts franchise. The latest chapter,
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore has lost ground very quickly at the US box office, where three weeks in its take sits at $67m. Add in the $213m it’s picked up outside of America, and the movie’s global gross is currently $280m.
For Warner Bros, the disappointment will be that the film doesn’t appear to be hanging on very well against the competition, and by distance its final total will now be a franchise low for the series. It feels a matter of time before Warner Bros, for a mix of reasons, now knocks this on the head and focuses its Wizarding World efforts elsewhere.
There’s basically a week left for it, and the other family choices, to make their mark, before Marvel sends along the first of its 2022 movies on May 6
th. That’d be the small matter of
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness. Don’t bet against that closing in in a $1bn gross…
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