20 mil Would be nice15 Jul 2022 22:27
In encouraging news for the weekend, Sony reported that Where the Crawdads Sing (produced by Reese Witherspoon and with a new song from Taylor Swift) earned $2.3 million on Thursday. Either the film, based on Delia Owens’ extremely popular (12 million copies sold) novel is seriously frontloaded, especially for a non-sequel, non-geek-centric movie, or we may be looking at a $20 million-plus debut. The Sony/3000 Pictures release, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young woman who grows up alone in a marsh after her mother and siblings flee from their abusive, alcoholic patriarch, cost around $24 million to produce. Even a $15 million debut would be a win. However, the Olivia Newman-directed and Lucy Alibar-penned adaptation is the first mainstream wide release for adult women since Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum’s The Lost City in late March.