The fourth Bad Boys movie is looking to easily take #1 at this weekend's box office.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die is tracking for a $40 million-plus weekend after it debuted to $5.9 million in Thursday screenings. That number is just shy of 2020's Bad Boys for Life, which did $6.36 million and ended up making $62.5 million in its opening weekend. One difference: that was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Weekend, which means it had a Sunday bump from all the people who didn't have to go to work on Monday.
There's no word yet on how The Watchers, this weekend's other big release, performed in previews. That movie is the directorial debut of M. Night Shyamalan's daughter Ishana. Unfortunately, that's a lot less likely to breathe life into the weekend, with dismal reviews and poor audience scores. Bad Boys, meanwhile, has 97% positive audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and great response from departing audiences at Comscore's PostTrak.
Bad Boys For Life comparisons are going to be common, but remember that by the time that movie came out, there hadn't been a new Bad Boys film in more than 15 years. That isn't true this time around, so all that pent up excitement is absent and that could contribute to a lack of urgency for opening weekend.
Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, Jacob Scipio, Joe Pantoliano, and DJ Khaled all return to star in the fourth entry in the series, which adds Tasha Smith, Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Melanie Liburd, and Tiffany Haddish. Bad Boys: Ride or Die also brings back Bad Boys for Life directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. Bad Boys: Ride or Die releases in theaters on June 7th.
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