{"id":38280,"date":"2025-08-01T20:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38280\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T20:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:19:12","slug":"naked-gun-makes-1-6-million-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38280\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked Gun Makes $1.6 Million in Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tParamount\u2019s \u201cThe\u00a0Naked Gun<\/a>\u201d reboot, one of the year\u2019s funniest movies, has made $1.6 million at the box office so far after Thursday previews.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s on track to make between $15 million and $17 million, which is a respectable start considering theatrical comedies rarely get released anymore and the film only cost $42 million to produce. It stars Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of original \u201cNaked Gun\u201d comedy icon Leslie Nielsen. He\u2019s an incompetent police detective tasked to solve a twisty murder case in Los Angeles. The cast also includes Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, Kevin Durand, Liza Koshy and more. It\u2019s directed by Akiva Schaffer of Lonely Island and \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d fame.<\/p>\n

\n\tNone of this weekend\u2019s new releases will be able to dethrone Marvel\u2019s \u201cFantastic Four: First Steps\u201d from atop the box office. The superhero adventure is expected to make $45 million to $52 million in its second weekend, approximately a 55% to 60% decline from last week. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlso opening this weekend is the animated, family friendly sequel \u201cThe Bad Guys 2\u201d from Universal and DreamWorks. It\u2019s made $2.25 million in previews and is expected to make $20 million to $25 million over the weekend, which would put it in second place behind \u201cFantastic Four.\u201d The \u201cBad Guys 2\u201d voice cast includes Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon\u2019s body horror movie \u201cTogether,\u201d starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, is the other new release this weekend, but it opened early on Wednesday. It\u2019s on track to make $7.5 million to $10 million over the five days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount\u2019s \u201cThe\u00a0Naked Gun\u201d reboot, one of the year\u2019s funniest movies, has made $1.6 million at the box office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344,34333],"class_list":["post-38280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-naked-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38280","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=38280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}