{"id":52978,"date":"2025-08-01T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52978\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:07:08","slug":"the-bad-guys-2-2m-the-naked-gun-1-6m-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52978\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Bad Guys 2’ $2M+, ‘The Naked Gun’ $1.6M In Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe first weekend of August begins with DreamWorks Animation\/Universal\u2019s The Bad Guys 2<\/a> stealing $2.25M from showtimes that began at 2 p.m. Thursday, which is higher than the first Bad Guys\u2018 $1.15M Thursday in 2022, which turned into a near-$8M first day and $23.9M in a recovering post-Covid box office. The outlook on Bad Guys 2 in regards to tracking was $20M.<\/p>\n

\n\tProduction cost on Bad Guys 2 is $80M net, $10M higher than the first movie, which repped a rebound for the Covid box office, that pic ultimately minting $97.4M domestic and $252.4M worldwide. The sequel\u2019s Rotten Tomatoes critics score is 85% fresh, which is 3 points under the 88% certified fresh of the first film.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount, on the precipice of its merger with Skydance<\/a>, is trying to bring the big-screen comedy back to life with its reboot of 1980s classic The Naked Gun<\/a>, that Liam Neeson-Pamela Anderson movie doing $1.6M last night from shows that started at 7 p.m. Comedy comps are hard, but The Naked Gun isn\u2019t that far from Sony\u2019s R-rated Jennifer Lawrence movie No Hard Feelings, which did $2.15M on its Thursday (4 p.m. start-time) previews in 2023 and turned into a $6.3M Friday and $15M 3-day at 3,344 sites. That\u2019s what hoped for here on this redo directed by Akiva Schaffer and produced by Seth MacFarlane. Net production cost is $42M.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Naked Gun had a good night in PostTrak exits with 4\u00bd stars and a 73% definite recommend. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film won over critics, a near-impossible feat when it comes to comedy, at 90% certified fresh with an 87% audience score.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Alison<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAlison Brie and Dave Franco in \u2018Together\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeon<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon\u2019s wide release of the Dave Franco-Alison Brie romantic horror movie Together grossed $1.35M in its second day at the box office for a running cume of $4M. The forecast is $8M-$10M over five days for the movie, which Neon snapped up for $16M<\/a> out of Sundance. The last five-day genre movie that comes to mind is A24\u2019s Midsommar, and Together, which has higher Rotten Tomatoes critics and audience scores (91% critics\/79% audience to\u00a0Midsommar\u2018s 83% critics\/63% audience) is currently $300K behind that 2019 Ari Aster film. As we told you Thursday, Together gets a C+ CinemaScore, same grade as Midsommar.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s all about the second weekend of Marvel Studios\u2019 The Fantastic Four<\/a>: First Steps, which ends the week with $158.3M after an estimated $7.4M Thursday, -14% from Wednesday. The second-frame outlook is $45M-$47M for the net $200M-budgeted movie, which is around a 61% decline. The Matt Shakman-directed reboot keeps all the premium screens.<\/p>\n

\n\tGowtam Tinnanuri\u2019s Kingdom opened Thursday, making $1.1M at 360 locations. The pic follows an undercover cop who is plunged into Sri Lanka on a covert mission to dismantle a powerful syndicate. He learns the mastermind is his estranged brother, forcing him to confront family loyalty, and the moral cost of duty.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s the top 5:<\/p>\n

\n\t1.) The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Dis) 4,125 theaters, Thu $7.4M (-14% from Wed), Week $158.3M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

\n\t2.) Superman (WB) 3,930 theaters, Thu $2.66M (-10%), Wk $37.7M (-57%), Total $302.3M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n

\n\t3.) Jurassic World Rebirth (Uni) 3,550 theaters, Thu $1.54M (-7%), Wk $20.3M (-43%), Total $308.9M\/Wk 4
Let the record show that 2025 now has four movies that grossed north of $300M at the domestic B.O., also inclusive of Superman, Lilo & Stitch and A Minecraft Movie. <\/p>\n

\n\t4.) F1 (Apple\/WB) 2,615 theaters, Thu $750K (-13%), Wk $9.8M (-36%), Total $169.1M\/Wk 5<\/p>\n

\n\t5.) Smurfs (Par) 3,504 theaters, Thu $715K (-28%), Week $9.3M (-15%), Total $26.7M\/Wk 2 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first weekend of August begins with DreamWorks Animation\/Universal\u2019s The Bad Guys 2 stealing $2.25M from showtimes that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,18832,16490,16491],"class_list":["post-52978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-fantastic-four","tag-the-bad-guys-2","tag-the-naked-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52978","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=52978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}