{"id":11422,"date":"2020-01-20T13:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=11422"},"modified":"2020-01-24T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T21:05:45","slug":"box-office-insider-bad-boys-for-life-crushes-expectations-while-dolittle-battles-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/box-office-insider-bad-boys-for-life-crushes-expectations-while-dolittle-battles-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office Insider: \u2018Bad Boys For Life\u2019 Crushes Expectations While \u2018Dolittle\u2019 Battles \u20181917\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each week on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atom Insider<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. This week,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bad Boys for Life <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">surprised just about everyone with strong critical reviews, enthusiastic audience ratings, and a fiery box office.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Week\u2019s Top Earner\u00a0 \u2013 \u2018Bad Boys For Life\u2019<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SHXFjf8_MV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audiences knew what they gonna do this weekend, and that\u2019s watch the third entry in Sony\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bad Boys <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">franchise, this time directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah after a 17-year hiatus since the previous entry from Michael Bay. The action-comedy scored $62.1 million domestically over the three-day weekend, with current estimates pointing to a possible $73 million total over the four-day weekend. Worldwide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/bad-boys-for-life\/215330\"><em>Bad Boys for Life<\/em><\/a> already has $112 million in the bank over a reported budget of $90 million, making it the annual January surprise hit. And with <a href=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/national-treasure-3-movie-happening-chris-bremner-writer\/\">another sequel reportedly on its way<\/a>, we can safely say the title of this film appears to be accurate.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rounding Out The Rest Of The Box Office<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1917 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dolittle <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are both Universal films, so it\u2019s not exactly a competition. But the two films were neck and neck all weekend for the #2 spot, which is still shaking out a winner as we finish the long weekend. As of Sunday, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1917 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is up by a hair at about $22 million domestically, with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dolittle <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at $21.9 million for #3. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1917 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is <a href=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/box-office-insider-1917-beats-competition\/\">the clear success story overall<\/a> at this point thanks to its <a href=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/2020-oscar-nominations\/\">heaps of awards buzz<\/a> and smaller production budget making room for a profitable theatrical run. On the flipside, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dolittle <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cost upwards of $175 million due to expensive reshoots and other production issues, making its worldwide total of just $56.8 million look like <a href=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/dolittle-review\/\">no laughing matter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further down the Top 10, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jumanji: The Next Level <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Sony) held onto stronger box office numbers over <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Disney), which plummeted to #5 with just $8.3 million. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like a Boss <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Paramount) faced a similar fate as it dropped 5 spots to #9 in its second week below <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little Women <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Sony), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just Mercy <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Warner Bros), and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knives Out <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Lionsgate), which actually climbed to #9 this week in its eighth weekend. Whodunnit? More like who knew?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And They\u2019re Out<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Underwater <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(20th Century) clearly wasn\u2019t a breath of fresh air for audiences. The horror sci-fi dropped four spots to #11 in just its second week, which is bad news considering the film cost an estimated $50-80 million and has only made $26.8 million worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spies in Disguise <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(20th Century), which fell to #12 after four weeks at the box office. The animated comedy didn\u2019t exactly make an impact with pop culture, but it still managed to outgross its reported production budget of $100 million with nearly $133 million worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s it for this weekend. Check back with Atom Insider next week as we recap all the newest releases vying for the top of the box office.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. This week, Bad Boys for Life surprised just about everyone with strong critical reviews, enthusiastic audience ratings, and a fiery box office. This Week\u2019s Top Earner\u00a0 \u2013 \u2018Bad Boys For Life\u2019 Audiences knew what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-box-office","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11423,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions\/11423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}