'Hellboy' is a domestic miss as 'Little' is the biggest of this weekend's new releases.
reboot earned just $4.9 million yesterday, including $1.38 million in Thursday previews.
With horrifically bad reviews and a C from CinemaScore, that sets the stage for a frankly mediocre $12.5 million debut weekend, below even the $13.6 million debut weekends ofin early 2017. And, yeah, it’s way below the $23 million debut ofin 2008. It will be lucky to earn in total what the sequel earned over its debut Fri-Sun frame.reboot would never have been a thing.
into a bigger deal, this R-rated reboot did little to entice newbies while alienating the faithful fanbase. This reboot depended entirely on whether the mere idea of a'After'into 2,138 theaters yesterday. The romantic drama is based on Anna Todd’s novel, one which began life as an online story which was straight-up fan-fiction about a young woman dating Harry Styles. The film earned $2.9 million yesterday, setting the stage for a halfway $7 million Fri-Sun frame.
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