Keke Palmer’s buddy comedy ‘One of Them Days’ comes out on top at weekend box office
nypost.comNorth American box office charts on a particularly slow Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.The R-rated Sony release earned $11.6 million from 2,675 theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, beating Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” by a hair.
By the end of Monday’s holiday, “Mufasa” will have the edge, however.“One of Them Days” cost only $14 million to produce, which it is expected to earn by Monday.
The very well-reviewed buddy comedy stars Palmer and SZA as friends and roommates scrambling to get money for rent before their landlord evicts them.Notably it’s the first Black female-led theatrical comedy since “Girls Trip” came out in 2017 and it currently carries a stellar 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.But the marketplace was also quite weak overall.
The total box office for Friday, Saturday and Sunday will add up to less than $80 million, according to data from Comscore, making it one of the worst Martin Luther King Jr.
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