'Bad Boys' Take On 'Dolittle' at the Weekend Box Office
by EG
Looking for an original movie based on a fresh premise this weekend? You're going to have to look further than the big new releases from Hollywood. Sequel Bad Boys For Life is likely to be the winner at the box office, but franchise reboot Dolittle is vying for second place. Read on for details.
It's reboot mania at the January box office.
Bad Boys for Life and Dolittle will face off over the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, with the former expected to top the chart. Between them, they feature two of the world's biggest movie stars: Will Smith and Robert Downey Jr.
From Sony, Bad Boys 3 is pacing to gross anywhere from $38 million to $45 million domestically over the four-day frame, if not more.
Universal's Dolittle is tracking for a four-day gross of $22 million to $28 million, a disappointing start for a movie that cost a net $175 million to produce before marketing.
Reteaming Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, the threequel Bad Boys For Life opens 17 years after the last installment in the action-comedy franchise hit the big screen. Drawing solid reviews, its current Rotten Tomatoes score stands at 76 percent.
Bad Boys 3 was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah and co-stars Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton Paola Nunez, Kate del Castillo, Nicky Jam and Joe Pantoliano.
The R-rated pic cost at least $90 million to produce before marketing.
The even-pricier Dolittle — which stars Downey as the vet who can talk to animals — debuts 19 years after Eddie Murphy's Dr. Dolittle 2 played in cinemas (there were subsequently three direct-to-DVD movies in that series, although they didn't star Murphy).
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