'Ocean's Eight' Takes on 'Solo: A Star Wars Story'
by EG
Ocean's Eight, the franchise installment featuring a predominantly female cast, opens this weekend at a box office that has been dominated by spaceships and superheroes for months. Will Sandra Bullock and crew be able to take the box-office title away from Solo: A Star Wars Story? Read on for predictions about how the weekend is likely to go. You're probably going to be surprised.
The star-studded, female-fronted Ocean's 8 should have no trouble winning this weekend's box-office crown with a domestic debut in the $35 million-$40 million range, toppling holdover Solo: A Star Wars Story.
From Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow, Ocean's 8 is a spinoff of the Ocean's Eleven film series and is among a slew of gender-swapping reboots and remakes being plotted by Hollywood studios. The pic is the biggest title on Warners' summer slate, with the studio saving its big tentpoles for the fall and winter.
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Ocean's 8, directed by Gary Ross, stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna and Helena Bonham Carter as the titular master thieves.
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Bullock plays Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of Danny Ocean, who was portrayed by George Clooney in the trio of Ocean's movies directed by Steven Soderbergh but does not appear in this film. The story follows the familiar Ocean's formula, with Debbie getting released from prison and then assembling a female-led gang of criminal specialists who plot to rob the Met Gala in New York.
Ocean's 8 opens 11 years after Ocean's Thirteen hit the big screen. The last film in Soderbergh's series opened to $36.1 million domestically in June 2007. By comparison, Ocean's Twelve debuted to $39.2 million in December 2004, while Ocean's Eleven launched to $38.1 million in December 2001. Adjusted for inflation, those figures rise to $48.1 million, $57.7 million and $61.7 million, respectively.
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