After off-screen drama threatened to devour Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling,” the Warner Bros. launch opened No. 1 on the field workplace, debuting with $19.2 million in ticket gross sales, in line with studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, “Don’t Worry Darling” was engulfed by a storm of controversies that revolved round the whole lot from Pugh’s allegedly strained relationship with Wilde as to if Styles may need even spit on co-star Chris Pine on the movie’s Venice Film Festival premiere. (Styles denied it.)
The film, too, was torched by critics (38% contemporary on Rotten Tomatoes) and arrived in theaters with extra baggage than any latest launch.
For an authentic movie that value $35 million to make, a $19.2 million launch was strong — and barely greater than the studio had forecast. Numerous moviegoers — together with loads of Styles followers — turned as much as see what all of the fuss was about.
But the discharge of “Don’t Worry Darling,” enjoying in 4,113 theaters, was additionally no residence run.
Audiences gave it a B- CinemaScore, and ticket consumers fell off on Saturday after extra promising outcomes on Thursday and Friday. Warner Bros. mentioned the viewers was 66% feminine. The movie added $10.8 million internationally.
Jeff Goldstein, distribution chief for Warner Bros., estimated that “the background noise had a neutral impact.” The studio, he mentioned, was “pleased with these results given our modest production budget.”
The viewers scores and tapering-off ticket gross sales counsel “Don’t Worry Darling” might wrestle to carry effectively within the coming weeks. But its good-enough debut implies that Wilde’s movie didn’t flip into the whole fiasco that some pegged it to be.
Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for knowledge agency Comscore, mentioned that, in the end, unhealthy publicity was good publicity for Wilde’s follow-up to her directorial debut, the 2019 teen comedy “Booksmart.”
“The latest from Olivia Wilde benefited from the heightened awareness and mainstream press coverage that made ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ the virtual water cooler film of the moment and … paid big dividends at the box office,” mentioned Dergarabedian.
Last week’s high movie, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s African epic “The Woman King,” starring Viola Davis, slid to second place with $11.1 million in its second weekend of launch. That was a modest 42% dip for the Sony Pictures launch, an indication of resiliency for the acclaimed motion drama.
Third place went to a well-recognized box-office power. The Walt Disney Co.’ rerelease of James Cameron’s “Avatar” grossed $10 million domestically and $20.5 million internationally, 13 years after its preliminary run in theaters.
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