Jilted. Divorced. Abandoned after an argument with the Mother-In-Law, and any other wedding related metaphors for failure can be applied to The Bride.
Unfortunately for an $80 million budgeted feature with big studio muscle behind it, it pulled in just $7.2 million domestic and $6.3 million overseas, opening in third place.
Weak reviews and bad audience scores will see this drop fast, so a PVOD debut in a hurry is in its future now.
Topping the box office was Pixar’s Hoppers, easily winning the weekend woth $46 million.
It also has high scores, and successful animation has tended to have legs at the box office lately.
Paramount’s Scream 7 fell to second place with a massive, but not unexpected, 74% drop. It will have likely now done the bulk of its business. Currently sitting at $150 million worldwide, nobody at Paramount will be too upset.
Below The Bride, in fourth place, is the animated film Goat, which earned a further $6.6 million in its fourth weekend to sit at $146 million globally.
Fifth pace when to Wuthering Heights.
This week there is only really How To Make A Killing worthy of note among the releases, before the decks are cleared for Project Hail Mary the week after.
