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SMILE $2.0M Domestic Previews
https://twitter.com/BoxOffice/status/1575850051985084416
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30/9/2022·r/boxoffice
CrisisTeamHyper
Thinking around $17M which is pretty good (and equal to its budget). I think WOM will carry it throughout spooky season, plus it has the benefit of being the last in a slew of more weird horror movies this month (Barbarian and Pearl), plus this and Halloween Ends are perfectly capable of co-existing IMO, especially with two weeks in between.
altcastle
I am surprised if it cost $17m. Seems high for this sort of film. But I am excited to see it!
It does, in terms of locations/scope, but honestly it does look and feel like a very polished studio production, and that kind of look doesn't come cheap. But yeah, for a first time director doing a horror movie, it is unusually high. I think Paramount realized the concept was pretty much a slam dunk and were willing to invest in something that they saw as very commercial to avoid it ending up too niche or unconventional for general audiences.