Sony’s reboot of Charlie’s Angels has followed in the footsteps of Terminator: Dark Fate and Doctor Sleep by becoming the latest movie to tank at the North American box office, with the female-fronted action ensemble grossing a paltry $8.6 million in its domestic opening weekend.
The movie, directed by Elizabeth Banks and starring Kristen Stewart, Ella Balinska and Naomi Scott, had been tracking an opening in the region of $16 million (which was itself considered a disappointment), but barely managed to scrape half of that figure as James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari claimed pole position for the weekend with $31 million.
Internationally, Charlie’s Angels earned a further $19.3 million, giving the $55 million-budgeted reboot a worldwide total of $27.9 million to date.
SEE ALSO: Read our review of Charlie’s Angels here
“Not eighty-six… eight point six…”
The first big screen outing for Charlie’s Angels, starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, debuted to $40.1 million domestically back in 2000, while Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle got underway with $37.6 million in 2003. The films went on to gross $264.1 million and $259.1 million worldwide respectively.
In a report dissecting what went wrong for the new movie, Deadline claims that script and development problems had prevented the producers from enticing top-level talent such as Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Margot Robbie, and given the film’s one quadrant appeal (women aged between 13 and 39), Sony decided to slash the marketing campaign from $100 million to $50 million (a decision that seems smart in hindsight).
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Charlie’s Angels have always provided security and investigative skills to private clients, and now the Townsend Agency has expanded internationally, with the smartest, most fearless, most highly trained women all over the globe – multiple teams of Angels guided by multiple Bosleys taking on the toughest jobs across the world. When a young systems engineer blows the whistle on a dangerous technology, these Angels are called into action, putting their lives on the line to protect us all.
Charlie’s Angels features a cast that includes Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Naomi Scott (Aladdin), Ella Balinska (Casualty), Elizabeth Banks (Brightburn), Noah Centineo (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before), Sam Clafin (Adrift), Patrick Stewart (Logan), Djimon Hounsou (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Jonathan Tucker (Westworld).
