Through Sunday, however, Gemini Man's foreign tally stood at an underwhelming $82.2 million.

An over-the-hill hitman faces off against a younger clone of himself. Pre-release forecasts had placed “Gemini Man” between $24 million and $29 million from 3,642 venues. Release Date Oct 11, 2019. Showdowns. Follow me at @ScottMendelson and "like" The Ticket Booth on Facebook. I have extensively written about all of said subjects for the last 11 years. IMAX Murderer. 'Gemini Man' Stumbles at Box Office on Opening Weekend With Just $20M, 'Joker' Is the Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movie of All Time (UPDATE), Jared Leto Reportedly Tried to Stop Warner Bros. From Making 'Joker'. Follow me at @ScottMendelson and "like" The Ticket Booth on Facebook. “Gemini Man” kicked off at the international box office last weekend with $7 million in five markets and will expand to 54 territories, including the United Kingdom, Russia and Mexico. International | Box Office Mojo and IMDb are trademarks or registered trademarks of IMDb.com, Inc. or its affiliates. So far, Gemini Man has only grossed $36.5 million domestically and $82 million overseas. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. Like The Walk in IMAX, the story behind Gemini Man was that you shouldn’t bother if you can’t/won’t see it as intended. The action scenes, especially the big motorcycle chase that kicks off the second act, still impressed. It hasn’t performed much better overseas, where it has earned $59 million worldwide after opening in around 85% of its eventual foreign markets.

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Universal’s third weekend of “Abominable” should finish fourth with about $7 million, followed by Focus Features’ fourth weekend of “Downton Abbey” in the $5 million range. Paramount and Skydance Media shelled out $138 million to invest in the hyperrealistic visuals, while Fosun and Alibaba helped finance the movie. © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. Ang Lee's Gemini Man, which stars Will Smith facing off against a younger version of himself, continues to disappoint at the box office. All rights reserved. Action COMPLEX participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COMPLEX gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. Simply put, I wanted to see how the film played in the most conventionally old-school format possible, which is how most theatrical moviegoers (or eventual VOD/DVD viewers) will probably see the film. Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. Will Smith is now a “regular” movie star. under which this service is provided to you. Will Smith and Will Smith in 'Gemini Man'. Film opened to dismal reviews and a $20 million opening weekend Will Smith stars in this Sci-fi action-thriller about an aging assassin who comes face to face with a younger clone of himself. “Joker” has already become profitable for Warner Bros., which partnered with Village Roadshow and Bron on the $55 million project. We’d get the same “tortured hitman comes face-to-face with a younger version of himself” story, but without the bells and whistles necessary to essentially create a CGI double of “young Will Smith.” Moreover, we’d spend more of the movie just engaged in the characters (and action), including the performance of whoever played the clone, as opposed to implicitly judging each shot of “Junior” in terms of whether it passed the uncanny valley of the smell test. Gemini Man joins Focus (which earned $150 million global on a $50 million budget), Collateral Beauty, After Earth and Concussion as wholly original star vehicles that couldn’t pull their weight in a branded/IP theatrical world. Genres Action Drama Sci-Fi Thriller. When the few of those get thrown off by ridiculous plots (Serenity) or divisive visuals (Gemini Man), those moviegoers are likely to just stay home next time. It’s not, for example, Angelina Jolie’s Tomb Raider, which offered four extended action sequences and little else, which was mostly constituted of Lara Croft shooting at computer-generated imagery. I've studied the film industry, both academically and informally, and with an emphasis in box office analysis, for nearly 30 years. Will Smith is still terrific, even if he’s more engaging as “old Will Smith” than “young Will Smith.” That actually brings me to the crux of Gemini Man’s core problem, commercially and artistically. That would be fine, admirable even, if it didn’t cost $138 million. It was also facing off against the over-performing Joker, which brought in more during its third weekend ($29.2 million) than Gemini did during its debut ($20 million). The movie is the last theatrical release by CBS Films before it’s absorbed into CBS Corporation’s Entertainment Group.

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So far, Gemini Man has only grossed $36.5 million domestically and $82 million overseas. It put the technology above the story. Maybe if the film had worked better as a movie, Joker had been less of an all-purpose event, the movie star+high concept formula was still viable, and/or audiences weren’t either scared off by the high frame rate or chose to give up when unable to find a participating theater near them, Gemini Man might have survived. Daily | You may opt-out by. I've studied the film industry, both academically and informally, and with an emphasis in box office analysis, for nearly 30 years. Sci-Fi I have extensively written about all. Cast information Crew information Company information News Box office.

In Release 334 days/47 weeks. Like Gravity, The LEGO Movie and Black Panther before it, Joker has become one of those movies that’s hit it big in such a way that it actively hurts the competition. With the caveat that the reviews for the movie were lousy, folks either were turned off by the high-frame-rate (perhaps they got burned by the first Hobbit prequel), had no interest in 3-D or were unable to find a nearby theater playing it at a high frame rate.