Bridget Jones is back after more than a decade, Oliver Stone does the Edward Snowden story and the Blair Witch is back in this week’s new movies in theaters.
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The flop of Bridget Jones’s Baby, starring Renee Zellweger as the once-beloved singleton, was the big surprise of the weekend.
The film, which courted controversy with its take on the jet’s landing in the Hudson River in 2009, collected an estimated $22 million in US and Canadian theaters, ComScore Inc. said Sunday in a statement. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in the title role.
“He’s done so many little films or films that have really, really bombed in the last couple of years”, Murphy said. A lot of people thought the first film was really believable.
The brother of the woman in the first film finds a video showing his sister’s horrific experiences tracking down the Blair Witch. Gordon-Levitt’s last biographical drama, 2015’s The Walk, opened wide at a similar time previous year to $3.7 million, a number Snowden might double thanks to its considerably buzzier subject matter – no offense to high-wire walkers.
Still, the latest horror entry in the long dormant franchise managed to almost double its $5 million costs in a single weekend, even if it’s critical reviews are less than spectacular.
Bridget Jones’s Diary made rom-com magic out of Helen Fielding’s bestselling novel in 2001, but the sequel, 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, failed to produce similar results. The film features never-before-seen footage.
Now Bridget Jones is facing her 40s and the idea of motherhood. In the new film, she becomes pregnant and doesn’t know who the father is. So should you see it or skip it?
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In fourth, the thriller Snowden, based on the real-life CIA intelligence leaker, delivered only lukewarm critical reception and mild box office to match, opening with an estimated $8 million against a $40 million budget.
