Never underestimate the interest in ogling
a cute guy on a big screen.
Harry Styles, the white-hot musician and now
fledgling movie star, powered the critically drubbed and controversy-entangled
“Don’t Worry Darling” to a solid $19.2 million in estimated ticket sales at
North American cinemas over the weekend. That No. 1 total was propped up by
more than $3 million in preview screenings from earlier in the week.
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Women made up 66 percent of the audience, according
to Warner Bros., the studio behind the $35 million film, with an unusually
large 52 percent of ticket buyers younger than 25.
“Don’t Worry Darling,” an R-rated romantic mystery
co-starring Florence Pugh and directed by Olivia Wilde, who also acted in it,
received a B-minus grade from moviegoers in CinemaScore exit polls. It played
in 4,113 theaters in the
US and Canada.
“Don’t Worry Darling” collected an additional $10.8
million overseas, in 61 markets.
Reviews were mostly negative, and Wilde and her film
generated a torrent of unfavorable prerelease publicity, with Wilde getting
into a public tit-for-tat with Shia LaBeouf, who was originally hired for the
role that Styles ended up playing; and Pugh seeming to actively resist
promoting the film, leading to reports of a rift between herself and Wilde.
Overall, it was a quiet weekend at the domestic box
office as theaters continue to struggle to recover from the coronavirus
pandemic, in part because of a limited supply of new movies from studios.
Ticket sales totaled about $60 million, compared with $123 million for the same
weekend in 2019.
“The Woman King” (
Sony) was second at the box office
derby, collecting about $11.1 million, for a two-week total of $36.3 million,
according to Comscore, which compiles ticketing data. The rerelease of James
Cameron’s 13-year-old “Avatar” (Walt Disney Studios) generated about $10
million, on par with expectations.
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