{"id":19288,"date":"2025-07-18T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19288\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:53:11","slug":"i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-makes-2-2m-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19288\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Makes $2.2M Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tColumbia Pictures and Screen Gems\u2019 reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer<\/a> banked $2.2 million in previews from showtimes that began at 2PM yesterday, while A24\u2019s Ari Aster socio political-western, Eddington<\/a>, did $625K. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Superman'\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Superman<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWarner Bros\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tNeither, nor Paramount Animation\u2019s Smurfs<\/a>, is expected to over swell with Warner Bros\/DC Studios\u2019 Superman still a fortress atop the box office chart with an expected second weekend of $55M-$60M, that James Gunn movie ending its first week with $177.7M. Superman is pacing ahead of the first week of Matt Reeves The Batman by +3% ($172.5M, final domestic $369.3M), +16% ahead of Gunn\u2019s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($152.7M first week, $359M final domestic) and -3% behind the first week of GOTG Vol. 2 ($183.1M, final domestic $389.3M). <\/p>\n

\n\tI Know What You Did Last Summer is eyeing around $13M+, while Smurfs is anywhere in the high single digits to low teens. Eddington is expected to land in the under $5M range. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Jennifer Kaytin Robinson directed I Know What You Did Last Summer counts previews which are higher than Blumhouse\/Universal\u2019s Wolf Man ($1.4M previews, $10.8M opening) from earlier this year, and -62% less than Sony\u2019s reboot of 28 Years Later ($5.8M previews, $30M opening). Critics have settled at 38% Rotten on I Know What You Did Last Summer while the Rotten Tomatoes audience meter is at 69%. That latter score is the best in franchise, ahead of the original 1997 installment at 41% and the 1998 sequel at 29%. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 1997 movie, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and\u00a0the late Anne Heche<\/a>, opened to $15.8M and legged out to $72.5M domestic, $125.5M worldwide. The 1998 sequel\u00a0I Still Know What You Did Last Summer\u00a0debuted to $16.5M and ended its run at $40M. The movies made $165M combined. The third movie,\u00a0I\u2019ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer\u00a0starring Brooke Nevin, went direct to home video in 2006. The new installment since the return of Hewitt and Prinze Jr with newcomers Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon and Gabbriette Bechtel.<\/p>\n

\n\tEddington\u2018s critical score stands at 66%, which is under the 90% certified fresh of his horror opus Hereditary, and his Swedish solstice genre pic run amok, Midsommar (83% certified fresh), and 2 points under his Joaquin Phoenix trippy pic Beau Is Afraid (68% fresh).<\/p>\n

\n\tSmurfs didn\u2019t hold previews last night. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe rest of the week:<\/p>\n

\n\t1.) Superman (WB) 4,135 theaters Thu $10.9M (-7% from Wed) Week $177.7M\/Wk 1 <\/p>\n

\n\t2.) Jurassic World Rebirth (Uni) 4,324 theaters, Thu $4.2M (-6% from Wed), Week $60.6M (-56%), Total $252.7M\/Wk 2 <\/p>\n

\n\t3.) F1 (Apple) 3,412 theaters, Thu $1.75M (-6%), Wk $20.8M (-47%), Total $144M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n

\n\t4.) How to Train Your Dragon (Uni) 3,285 theaters, Thu $1.22M (-6%), Week $13.3M (-30%)\/Total $245.3M\/Wk 5<\/p>\n

\n\t5.) Elio (Dis) 2,730 theaters, Thu $683K (-11%), Week $7.1M (-31%), Total $66.9M\/Wk 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems\u2019 reboot of I Know What You Did Last Summer banked $2.2 million in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[7656,88,13729,206,14269,209],"class_list":["post-19288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eddington","tag-entertainment","tag-i-know-what-you-did-last-summer","tag-movies","tag-smurfs","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}