Matthew McConaughey is in 'Sing 2' and Yahya Abdul Mateen II is in 'The Matrix Resurrections'.
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Sing 2 earned another $5.25 million for a three-day total of $22.50 million domestic. It will end up with a $23 million Fri-Sun gross and a $40 million domestic debut. Sing launched in 2016 with a $35 million/$56 million Christmas launch. The Secret Life of Pets 2 opened with $48 million in the US and Canada, which is less than the opening of The Secret Life of Pets.
Little Fockers, which dropped 30% on Christmas Eve 2010, still has over $50 million for the holiday frame. Even if it doesn't do as well as Sing, it still earned an A+ from Cinemascore and is not like The 355, Scream or Morbius. Sing 2 will be the biggest global-grossing toon since The Croods: A New Age, which made $213 million in 2020.
Warner Bros. is releasing a movie called The Matrix Resurrections. The film earned another $2.7 million on Friday for a three-day gross of $13.5 million. The Matrix Revolutions opened to $48 million in November of 2003 and will likely do the same with a $24.83 million Fri-Sun and $24.84 million Wed-Sun debut. The film 47 Ronin made $20 million in its first weekend of release. Wonder Woman 1984 opened in mostly closed theaters and had a strong opening weekend, with $16.7 million over the Fri-Sun frame.
The result was mixed-positive reviews and mixed word-of-mouth. General audiences didn't care about another Matrix sequel after the first one and 18 years after the divisive sequels. The action films that cost $30 million, $40 million and $75 million to produce have a star like Keanu Reeves. I think John Wick: Chapter 4 would open with a lot more than $25 million even on a Covid curve and with concurrent streaming availability.
I would have spent my money on the John Wick 4 movie if it was on the same day as the Matrix 4. Doctor Sleep, West Side Story, and Blade Runner 2049 didn't work for Matrix 4.
It was another case of intellectual property for the sake of intellectual property and trying to create nostalgia for a franchise where only the first film was beloved. It is as risky to make a sequel to Independence Day without Will Smith as it is to make a sequel to Matrix without Hugo Weaving.
The King's Man continued to disappear. The Kingsman opened with $10 million on Friday and The Golden Circle earned 15 million on its first day. I like the film, as it was clearly Matthew Vaughn using an intellectual property to tell an original World War I-era spy actioner. The Kingsman was liked by audiences, but they didn't want to see The King's Man.
