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Box Office: ‘Brahms: The Boy II’ Can’t Find Life in Theaters
One of the surprise success stories of 2016 was STX’s The Boy, a $10 million budgeted horror film that clawed its way to nearly $75M in its theatrical run.
With Brahms: The Boy II (review), STX hoped for similar numbers, allegedly spending the same on the sequel that moves a family into Heelshire Mansion, where their young son (Christopher Convery) soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily life-like doll he calls Brahms. Katie Holmes stars and William Brent Bell returns to the director’s chair.
Unfortunately, early estimates peg the lifeless sequel as having opened to only $5.9M, nearly half that of its predecessor. This soft opening offers STX a life domestic target of $15M, which isn’t even close to breakeven.
International numbers have yet to be reported, but the first did manage nearly $40M overseas alone. It’ll need another $15M for STX to breathe easy. Update: Brahms took in 2.2M overseas for an $8.1M global opening.
We’ll keep our eyes on the box office in case anything surprising happens.
You can listen to the Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast chat with William Brent Bell below.
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If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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