Will 'Men in Black: International' Bomb?
by EG
Men in Black: International, the new MIB installment starring Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, will likely win the weekend, but it will also likely be the lowest-grossing MIB film of all. Poor reviews and modest expectations are hounding the movie ahead of its release. Read on for details.
The 2019 summer box office so far has been filled with sequels, series installments and spinoffs that have opened to varying degrees of success. And this weekend is looking to continue that trend.
Men in Black: International is tracking for a $30 million bow at the domestic box office across 4,200 theaters and is expected to lead the weekend. Some industry experts with access to early surveys estimate that the movie could debut in the $35 million-$37 million range.
While those figures all trail the opening weekend hauls of the other films in the Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones-starring Men in Black universe — 1997's Men in Black opened to $51 million, while Men in Black II and III bowed to $52.1 million and $54.6 million in 2002 and 2012, respectively, — International is a series spinoff.
Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth star in the new pic as Agent H and Agent M, respectively, who spearhead the London bureau of the agency that is charged with protecting and concealing the Earth from an alien species. F. Gary Gray, the filmmaker behind franchise fare like Fate of the Furious, directed the latest installment in the MIB universe.
International, which currently sits at a 27 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, was a co-production with Hemisphere and Tencent, with a budget of $110 million.
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