The plot thickens when Central Intelligence Agency agent Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) see this as a way to progress up the ranks with Director Dewy and pleads the case that Jason Bourne should not be eliminated but brought back into the fold and she knows how to make it happen.
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Per studio estimates, “Jason Bourne” earned $60 million. With a higher-than-expected opening, you’d think the movie would have held over well – but “Bourne” showed up and slapped it around. However, the positive is that the film cost just $20 million to make, so there’s still hope for Nerve turning a profit, particularly if word-of-mouth is able to keep it in the summer movie conversation.
The weekend’s other high-profile entry, STX Entertainment’s Bad Moms, did solid business in its debut, earning $23.4-M from 3,215 theaters to mark one of the better recent openings for an R-rated comedy.
I suggest you SPEND THE MONEY and see JASON BOURNE in the theaters.
With an average opening night audience grade of A-, according to market research firm CinemaScore, “Jason Bourne” appears poised for a healthy run driven by audience word-of-mouth, despite mixed critical reviews. It stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn as women who reject the pressure to be ideal parents. Next weekend, Jason Bourne opens in Argentina, Egypt, India and Slovenia. The film opened in first place in 27 of the 46 markets in which it played.
Bourne – whose director Paul Greengrass had for years insisted he was done with the series – seized the box-office lead from “Star Trek Beyond”, which took in $24 million for a two-week total of $105.7 million. That is roughly about $40 million less than the previous two Kelvin Timeline films made in the same amount of time, so things are not looking good for the crew of the Enterprise.
Meanwhile, The Secret Life of Pets fell to #4 with an estimated $18.2 million, bringing its domestic total to just under $300 million.
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Falling from the top is Star Trek Beyond, which like its predecessor had a strong opening weekend but a heavy second frame. But the more amusing observations come at the end with the traditional roll call of the cast, this time including abundant tropes like walking through a train station looking anxious and like a million turtlenecks.
