Expend4bles does b4d and The Nun II stays on top at the weekend box office
Nothing did especially well in U.S. theaters this weekend
Aux News Expend4bles
In what seems like the most definitive proof yet that you shouldn’t spend untold millions of dollars making a movie exclusively for the people who remember that there was an Expendables 3 (it came out in 2014 and Kelsey Grammer was in it???), Expend4bles—pronounced ecks-pen-d-for-bulls—opened to just $8.3 million. As we noted earlier this weekend, that wasn’t enough to beat The Nun II, which actually came out just ahead of Expend4bles by $100,000 in its third week in U.S. theaters. The horror sequel spin-off has a nice $69 million total.
Finishing the top five in the U.S. this weekend are A Haunting In Venice, which doesn’t seem to have the surprising box office oomph of its predecessors in that series (it only has $25 million in its second week), The Equalizer 3 (quietly pulling in $80 million in four weeks), and—holy shit—Barbie (still making money after 10 weeks in theaters).
In the bottom half of the top 10 we have My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, horror newcomer It Lives Inside, Dumb Money (which jumped up a thousand percent from its debut at number 19 thanks to a bigger rollout, but that only amounts to $2.5 million in week two), Blue Beetle, and Barbie’s friend Oppenheimer. All told, this was indeed the worst box office weekend of the year, and you have to go way back to February 12 to see anything remotely close to this. Magic Mike’s Last Dance was the top movie, but Avatar: The Way Of Water in its ninth week and the 25th-anniversary rerelease of Titanic were pretty close to it.
Anyway, this probably means that the all-female ExpendaBelles movie is never gonna happen, huh? Bummer. Here’s the top 10 again as a list, from Box Office Mojo.
- The Nun II
- Expend4bles
- A Haunting In Venice
- The Equalizer 3
- Barbie
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
- It Lives Inside
- Dumb Money
- Blue Beetle
- Oppenheimer
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I’m going to put aside my grammar nazi tendencies long enough to say that “Expend4bles does b4d” is a pretty cute burn.
if you accept that all the other 4 either were bad or did bad it’s easier going down…for people for whom that would be difficult to reconcile
“the other 4″? Is this the opposite of the “I’m pretending that movie never existed” thing where we pretend a series had an extra movie that didn’t really exist?
*sometime in the future*Scriptwriter: “We’ve come at it from every angle, sir, but there’s just no way to work the number 8 into the word ‘Expendables’ for this installment.”Executive: “YOU’RE JUST NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH GODDAMNIT!”
Saw A Haunting in Venice yesterday and was supremely disappointed. I assumed with the name “Hercule” that the main character would be a strong, tough guy who beats the shit out of everyone. Instead he’s just some old fart with a stupid mustache.F-
Agatha Christie is probably a hard sell these days although I’d be interested in seeing a depiction of 1947 Venice.
It was a lot of fun. We had a great time with it. That fucking bird though.
I’m always for cinematic recreations of the twentieth century.
But what if I told you the previous film in the series exploded the origin of said mustache? What then?
So suckass movies at the theaters means suckass box office takes…that’s ”astounding”.
“—Barbie (still making money after 10 weeks in theaters).”I’m old enough to remember when a movie would take ten weeks after release before it even showed at my local theater.
I’m old enough to remember when Greek Wedding was still expanding in its tenth week. That wasn’t that far back.Huh? It came out how many years ago? Twenty what, you say? That can’t be right.
So the only romcom in that list is My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3? And the only kind of character drama is… the one from Nolan in IMAX?
G’head and make the all-female ExpendaBelles, or ExpendaBabes or whatever. Put Leslie Jones in it and have a pool on how many minutes until she’s complaining about what a bad experience it was.