‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Hits $2.3M Note, ‘Paws Of Fury’ Sees $505K – Thursday Night Box Office

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Sony/3000 Pictures/Hello Sunshine’s Where the Crawdads Sing is off to a great start in the pandemic, particularly for a largely female-skewing property with $2.3M off Thursday showtimes that began at 3PM in 3,150 theaters.Again, previews aren’t always a perfect science for smaller movies at the box office, but interesting to note that the film came in not to far under the $2.5M that the Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum romantic comedy adventure The Lost City made on its Thursday night in 3,400 theaters off 4PM showtimes.

That movie opened to $30.4M in the wake of a hot premiere at SXSW. Crawdads is only expected to see $9M-$10M. We’ll see if that changes.Where the Crawdads Sings’ Thursday night audience loved it with a 93% positive audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and received a 4.5-star PostTrak exit.Meanwhile, Paramount’s animated movie Paws of Fury didn’t see a robust start with only $505K off showtimes that began at 3PM at 2,650 locations.

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