'The Bride!' Opens Below Expectations at the Box Office in Its Opening Weekend
The Bride! has made its debut in theaters.
The new movie, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, opened at the box office this weekend, but came in lower than expected.
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The film brought in about $7.3 million from 3,304 theaters across North America in its opening weekend, per Variety.
That total is below studio projections of $16 million to $18 million, as well as estimates from rival studios and tracking services, which had put it at about $10 million to $15 million.
Internationally, the movie brought in another $6.3 million, bringing its overall haul to $13.6 million.
In the movie, a lonely Frankenstein (Christian Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Jessie Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!
The movie has proven incredibly polarizing: it currently has a 59% Rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics divided over the film.