Estimates are all over the place for the Paramount, DreamWorks and Reliance Entertainment title, the only wide release in theaters this weekend, which is historically a low-performing one at the box office.
Trackers have the R-rated comedy opening anywhere between $20 million and $29 million — which would foreseeably be more than enough to rise above Disney’s animated hit in its third weekend.
Focus Features’ moody thriller “Nocturnal Animals” is expanding in its fourth weekend, having earned $2.7 million so far in limited release.
Written and directed by fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford, it stars Amy Adams as an art gallery owner who can’t shake threatening thoughts inspired by the writings of her ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal), who penned a violent revenge-themed novel which she takes to heart.
