NEW YORK — David O. Russell’s star-studded Nineteen Thirties thriller “Amsterdam” flopped and the youngsters’s ebook adaptation “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” debuted softly, permitting the horror thriller “Smile” to repeat atop the field workplace in U.S. and Canada theaters, in keeping with studio estimates Sunday.
Neither new launch caught hearth with moviegoers however the disappointment was most acute for “Amsterdam,” a poorly reviewed $80 million screwball romp starring Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington. The twentieth Century Studios manufacturing, co-funded by New Regency and launched by the Walt Disney Co., opened with simply $6.5 million — a stinging rebuke for the embellished filmmaker of “Silver Linings Playbook” whose splashy ensemble additionally contains Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy and Taylor Swift.
Sony Pictures’ “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,” a musical based mostly on Bernard Waber’s youngsters’s ebook that includes Shawn Mendes because the voice of a computer-generated reptile, fared higher, gathering $11.5 million in ticket gross sales. But that also was a comparatively modest end result, particularly for the primary main household film to land in theaters because the summer time. The movie, which value $50 million to make, may gain advantage from youngsters being out of college for Monday’s Columbus Day and little kid-movie competitors this month.
Every week after topping the charts with a $22-million launch, Paramount Pictures’ “Smile” remained No. 1 with $17.6 million on the field workplace — a powerful second week for the modestly finances horror flick. Horror movies often fall steeply of their second week of launch however “Smile,” a creepy thriller about trauma and evil spirits, dropped simply 22%. To preserve the momentum, Paramount on Sunday introduced a weeklong collection of promotions, together with discounted tickets and a “Smile” NFT giveaway for some ticket-buyers on Thursday.
The finest information for Hollywood over the weekend was an indication that grownup audiences, after two pandemic-plagued seasons, could also be keen to come back out for the autumn’s high awards contenders.
Todd Field’s “Tar,” starring Cate Blanchett as a world-renown conductor, debuted with $160,000 in 4 New York and Los Angeles theaters, good for a stellar $40,000 per-theater common. After its premiere on the Venice Film Festival, Field’s first movie since 2006’s “Little Children” has drawn raves from critics and Oscar nomination predictions for Blanchett.
The sturdy begin will encourage an extended line of awards contenders coming within the subsequent few weeks, together with MGM’s Emmett Till drama “Till,” MUBI’s Park Chan-wook thriller “Decision to Leave” and Searchlight Pictures’ “The Banshees of Inisherin,” by writer-director Martin McDonagh.
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