The weekend wasn’t quite so dour for Blade Runner 2049 as the film finished the weekend slightly up on initial estimates.
A film like Blade Runner 2049 opening to around $30 million at the domestic box office doesn’t sound totally mad or unreasonable on the surface of things, but when taking into account the films astronomical budget ($150 million) that is a figure that doesn’t quite cut it.
And while the film’s final total for its opening weekend is a slight improvement over estimates, $32.8 million compared to $31.2 million, it still isn’t much to write home about.
Predictions last week had Blade Runner 2049 heading closer to the $50 million mark so investors are bound to be a little caught off guard, especially considering the overwhelmingly positive reviews it received.
The film will still hope to accumulate a fair taking from across all international markets, so perhaps it’s too soon to call this a flop, but it does show there was perhaps a little too much faith shown in the sequel to a film a lot of people might have fibbed about ever having seen.
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Blade Runner 2049 sees Harrison Ford reprising the role of Rick Deckard alongside Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista, Jared Leto and Edward James Olmos.
