{"id":287182,"date":"2025-11-16T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287182\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:05:10","slug":"box-office-magicians-applauded-runner-stumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287182\/","title":{"rendered":"Box-Office: Magicians Applauded, Runner Stumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/box-office-magicians-applauded-runner-stumbles.jpg\" data-caption=\"Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/box-office-magicians-applauded-runner-stumbles.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"box-office-magicians-applauded-runner-stumbles\"\/><\/a>Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t,\u201d the third entry in the magician heist franchise, has topped the box-office this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The film is coming in ahead of expectations, with a weekend opening of around $21-24 million expected following an $8.4 million haul on Friday.  That\u2019s above the $19 million projections earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Despite middling critical reviews and a decent B+ CinemaScore, the film has seemingly done well with audiences, in particular women who are making up 54% of ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>The opposite is true of Edgar Wright\u2019s new take on \u201cThe Running Man\u201d.  The film landed $6.4 million on Friday and is now headed for a $16-19 million start \u2013 considerably down from $24-25 million projections at the start of the week.  The film landed mixed reviews and a B+ CinemaScore.<\/p>\n<p>It is skewing heavily male at 64%, but is competing with the still in cinemas \u201cPredator: Badlands,\u201d which has scored a much more positive response with critics. That film is expected to take third place, followed by \u201cRegretting You\u201d in fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Osgood Perkins\u2019 \u201cKeeper\u201d was the other wide opener this week and has fizzled, looking to come in around fifth with $2.6 million.  It landed a dismal D+ CinemaScore.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/now-you-see-me-box-office-upset-running-man-1236427896\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/shang-chi-star-talks-superhero-fatigue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cShang-Chi\u201d Star Talks Superhero Fatigue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/naked-gun-director-unimpressed-with-reboot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cNaked Gun\u201d Director Unimpressed With Reboot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures \u201cNow You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t,\u201d the third entry in the magician heist franchise,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-287182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bigslider","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}