![]() ![]() Everything about this could so easily go south, or just become a Suicide Squad Part 2. Sitting down in a theater to finally see it at release-just a month or so before the pandemic really took hold in early February-there was an overwhelming sense of both trepidation and curiosity from the crowd. The movie really had no right to shape up the way it did, not with so much stacked against it. But it's just Birds of Prey now, and that's what really matters.īirds of Prey was a movie that nobody saw coming, especially given Margot Robbie's introduction to the role of Harley Quinn back in 2016's Suicide Squad. While the MCU may have been MIA through 2020, the vacuum was filled by an unexpected bright spot by the name of Birds of Prey-or, perhaps more accurately, called Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, the title it held onto for about a week or so after it hit theaters. But that doesn't mean we were completely lacking in quality cape-and-cowl content-far from it. “Birds of Prey” has an 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes but just a 61 score on Metacritic.2020 was unsurprisingly light on superhero movies, and, in fact, this was the first year since 2009 that no Marvel movie hit the big screen. Chris Messina and Ali Wong also star in the film, which Yan directed from a screenplay by Christina Hodson. Harley then teams up with Cassandra and three other women targeted by Roman - vigilantes Huntress and Black Canary (Winstead and Smollet-Bell) and GCPD detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) - to take Roman down. Black Mask (Ewan McGregor), who’s on the hunt for an orphan named Cassandra (Ella Jay Basco) who stole a diamond from him. But she has a run in with a Gotham City crime lord named Roman Sionis, a.k.a. “Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” is directed by Cathy Yan and follows Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) several years after the events of “Suicide Squad” when she’s broken up with the Joker and started a new life. And Steven Spielberg’s video game sci-fi “Ready Player One” also made in the same range of $41.7 million in March 2018 after getting off to a $3.8 million start. “Lucy,” with Scarlett Johansson from July 2014, made $3 million in previews and opened to $43.8 million, albeit on a much smaller budget of just $40 million. That movie opened to $41.6 million after bringing in $4 million as well in the summer of 2018. Some other comps for the film include Warner’s “Ocean’s 8,” featuring another female-led cast. Both films also had a similar production budget of around $100 million, much lower than the $175 million budget for “Suicide Squad.”Īlso Read: Can 'Birds of Prey' and Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn Slay at Box Office? A good comparison then is Warner Bros.’ ‘Shazam!,” which made $5.9 million in Thursday previews and opened to $53.5 million. Though it didn’t do anything to slow down “Joker,” there’s a chance the R-rating for “Birds of Prey” might limit its upside at the box office. “Birds of Prey” is arguably the first major blockbuster of the year and the only wide release of the weekend, and it’s expected to kick off a strong showing for female directors and characters in studio, tentpole films with an opening projected for between $55-60 million. “Birds of Prey,” the superhero and villain team-up film starring Margot Robbie reprising her role from “Suicide Squad” as Harley Quinn, made $4 million at the box office in Thursday night previews. ![]()
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