As we all know now, Sucker Punch hit theaters Friday and opened to mixed reviews all around. Praised as a visually fun movie with almost as many explosions as a Micheal Bay film, this movie lacked severally in most other things a movie needs to succeed.
What many people may not know is that not only did it get beat at the box office in its first week out, but it got beat by a kids movie, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2...
Now that may not bother many people. Kids movies tend to make a lot of money anyway since not only do the kids go see the movies, but the parents are the ones taking them.
Here's hows the Box Office shakes out for the weekend:
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2- 24,400,00 (overall)
2. Sucker Punch- 19,015,00 (overall)
3. Limitless- 15,225,000 (weekend) 41,280,982 (overall)
With a reported budget of 82 million, will this movie struggle to break even? Will more people go see it now that the reviews have said it was worth the ticket price to see the visuals? Or, will this movie fall short and bomb big?
As we all know, the opening weekend is huge for a movie. Most of the time, the majority of the money made by the movie is made in its first weekend. Sucker Punch only made a little under 1/4th of its budget back in the first weekend. It is not looking likely that this movie will break even in my opinion, but it could easily make up for it in the coming weeks both in the US and overseas.
My question for everyone: If this movie struggles to make at least 82 million, breaking even, or even comes up short, will this hurt Snyder's chance at directing the upcoming Superman movie? Early reports, before the movie was released, seemed to point that Warner Brothers was not happy with the film and if it didn't do well, Snyder might be pulled from directing the movie.
What do y'all think about this and what is your reaction to Sucker Punch falling behind in the Box Office after just one weekend?