Jennifer Lopez’s erotic thriller “The Boy Next Door” has launched with a respectable $500,000 at 1,869 locations in Thursday night showings in the U.S.
The Universal title is expected to bring in between $12 million to $15 million for its opening weekend at 2,602 North American theaters. “The Boy Next Door,” produced by Universal and Blumhouse Prods. for $4 million, should attract Latino audiences and females.
“The Boy Next Door” will contend for second place against The Weinstein Co.’s second weekend of talking-bear comedy “Paddington,” pegged to wind up at around $13 million.
Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” will remain the dominant pic, following a stunning wide-release debut over the Martin Luther King holiday. Warner Bros.’ Iraq War drama has held up well in weekday showings with $9.9 million on Tuesday, $7.6 million on Wednesday and $7.7 million on Thursday, lifting its U.S. total to $135.8 million.
“American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper, is expected to take in at least $40 million for the Friday-Sunday period. That would represent a 58% decline from last weekend’s $89.3 million but the solid weekday business indicates that this weekend’s total could wind up significantly higher.
The studio has added 140 venues for “American Sniper,” bringing the total number of locations to 3,705.
Besides “The Boy Next Door,” the new entrants include Lionsgate’s crime caper “Mortdecai” with Johnny Depp, and Disney’s “Strange Magic,” a computer-animated film about goblins and elves produced by Lucasfilm. “Mortdecai” could wind up in the $10 million to $12 million range with “Strange Magic” coming in around $10 million.
Jay lo is not aging as well as say Jennifer Anderson for example but a good war movie beats an
‘erotic thriller (or whatever they call it ) anytime………… proof is in the ticket sales !
Money doesn’t talk it shouts maybe some more decent war movies and less of Seth Rogen garbage
and SNE and some of the other studios might make some money WB is showing the way
with American Sniper
Jenny from the block should stop pretending to be an actress. She is pretty and she has a big butt and a lousy voice. Stick with the crummy albums and the dumb TV show with all the idiots who cannot sing but are better than you are.
You’ve heard her sing?? I’ve only had the pleasure of seeing her lip-synch to a soundtrack created in a studio with the help of a very skilled technician who tweaked the hell out of her voice. Count youself one of the very lucky few .
She showed some promise in her early acting roles but her acting career never recovered from her career detour into singing–she is pretty painful to watch now.
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Jennifer Lopez is a lousy actress what made this movie The Boy Next Door was Ryan Guzman. Now that guy can act.