'Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore' looks to open with between $41 million and $51 million in its domestic debut weekend.
), yet more controversy around some of its central players and the sense not of a surefire tentpole elevating the box office but of a long-delayed bomb finally going off.
Almost everyone knew this was coming, the issues and challenges at play have been set in stone for three years, but Warner Bros. couldn’t do much to prevent it. I am not unsympathetic, as we’re talking about a franchise whose first entry nabbed good reviews and long legs to the tune of $234 million domestic and $814 million worldwide.
style crash for three years, but A) I might have been wrong and B) WB had little choice but to press on for at least one more installment. They had promised five films in late 2016, and they couldn’t just cut bait on the second film and its hard cliffhanger. To be fair,at least gives the franchise a soft finale if we don’t get a fourth and fifth film. This may not “save” the franchise, but it will allow it a graceful end if that’s how it plays out.
That Johnny Depp wasn’t exactly the Internet’s favorite actor by late 2018 didn’t help, and the film earned $9.2 million on Thursday but $62 million over its domestic debut. It then cratered with just $155 million domestic and a still-solid $655 million worldwide. But every sign pointed to a-like crash on the third go-around. With just $56 million overseas last weekend , the grim predictions seem to be coming true.
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