According to industry analyst Exhibitor Relations, Sony’s fourth installment of the action comedy series earned an estimated $56 million, marking a significant milestone in Smith’s career recovery from his 2022 Academy Awards slap of Chris Rock.
“The series has room to grow and Bad Boys is in elite company.” “These are very good figures,” Franchise Entertainment Research analyst David A. Gross stated. The triumph is a pleasant diversion from Smith’s 2022 action film “Emancipation,” in which he played a fleeing slave during the American Civil War, a character that was met with little enthusiasm from viewers and was a box office bomb.
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With $10 million in ticket sales from Friday through Sunday, “The Garfield Movie,” a family-friendly film starring Chris Pratt as the sluggish, lasagna-loving cat, fell to second place, losing ground to “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.”
Paramount’s “If,” which starred Cailey Fleming as a young girl who, with her neighbor Ryan Reynolds, sets out on a mission to reunite their children with long-forgotten imaginary playmates, came in third place with $8 million. The Watchers, a horror movie from Warner Bros., debuted in fourth place with $7 million, while Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, an action sci-fi movie from 20th Century, came in fifth place with $5.4 million.