Bob Marley: One Love outperformed expectations over the holiday weekend to the tune of $51 Million, but there was little love at all for Sony’s latest Marvel stinker Madame Web, which opened in second place with $25.8 million.
Paramount’s Bob Marley biopic, which stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as the legendary reggae singer, was projected to open somewhere in the $30-35 million range between Valentine’s Day on Wednesday and Presidents’ Day on Monday, but buoyed by positive word-of-mouth it has unexpectedly ruled the box-office.
Internationally, Bob Marley: One Love collected a further $29 million, raising its predicted global tally to an already impressive $80 million. The Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard) directed film had a reported budget of $70 million.
Sony’s Madame Web, which stars Dakota Johnson as a clairvoyant superhero, cost $10 million more to produce, but the $80 million budgeted action film could only open in second place with $17.6 million, and $25.8 million domestic during the same six-day period. The critically-lambasted (read our ★ ★ review here) film launched overseas with and additional $25.7 million. It’s worth pointing out that even Morbius earned $39.1 million in its three-day debut back in 2022.
Overall it was another sluggish pre-Dune: Part Two weekend at the North American box-office, with Argylle stagnant in third on $5.55 million, taking its domestic tally to a paltry $37.2 million, followed by Universal and Illumination’s Migration, which continues to draw a flock, despite having been around for nine weeks. The animated caper took an additional $3.75 million, for $116 million domestic and $254 million worldwide.
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Source – BoxOfficeMojo
