Gru To Rule With $33M+ As ‘Fly Me To The Moon’, ‘Longlegs’ Provide Depth To Weekend Box Office – Preview
deadline.comSony is looking to bring the underserved female moviegoing audience to cinemas this weekend with Apple Original Films’ $100M Channing Tatum-Scarlett Johansson stylish romantic comedy Fly Me to the Moon.
The PG-13 Greg Berlanti-directed, Rose Gilroy-penned feature follows a brassy ad exec played by Johansson who gets pulled in by the U.S.
government to create a back-up plan for NASA’s 1969 moon landing, while bonding with a launch director played by Tatum. The movie is currently on track for a $12M opening with solid first choice among women over 25, though the pic is slightly behind the George Clooney-Julia Roberts reteam Ticket to Paradise which opened in the fall of 2022 to $16.5M.
Reviews are also good currently at 71% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Fly Me to the Moon is one of three movies, including last Thanksgiving’s Napoleon and this fall’s George Clooney-Brad Pitt thriller Wolfs, which Sony won the distribution deal to from Apple; the streamer looking to eventize their movies before they hit the service.
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