A new movie adaptation of the comic book “Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn” was released, which despite an active advertising campaign failed at the box office.
The film “Birds of Prey: A Stunning Story of Harley Quinn” was released in Russia and other countries on February 6, Gamebomb.ru reports. The new superhero action movie for the first weekend raised just $ 81 million. Of these, 33 million accounted for home rental, and another 48 million received a picture in 78 other countries. This is the weakest start among all the films of the company. DC at home. Earlier, the worst result belonged to the comedy action movie “Shazam”, which collected 53 million for the first weekend in the United States. In the global box office, this film started much better than “Birds of Prey”, earning 158 million.
Many film industry experts made bolder predictions for the first days of the movie “Bird of Prey: A Stunning Story of Harley Quinn,” according to Gamebomb.ru. They expected the box office to be $ 45-55 million in the United States alone. High results were expected due to a large-scale advertising campaign of high ratings from critics. On the popular portal Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a rating of 80% freshness. In addition, the first viewers also generally positively rated the film. “Birds of prey” received 8 points out of 10 and 81% freshness from site users. High marks had little effect on box office. It is worth noting that the budget of the film without advertising costs is 84.5 million dollars.
The film “Birds of Prey: A Stunning Story of Harley Quinn” is a continuation of “Suicide Squad.” Harley Quinn breaks up with the Joker and decides to act independently, but in the end creates a team of girls with superpowers. The role of the former lover of the Joker again played Margot Robbie (Margot Robbie).
