It’s not a smash hit. It pulled about half the revenue the previous picture did in its opening weekend, and that one barely broke even which is why it took so long for anybody to green light this one. Unless it has a very counter to trend second week there probably won’t be a 4th.
“It’s not a smash hit.”
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But it will be.
But, yeah. I guess they’re just lucky there wasn’t say, a queer cab driver epic released this week, or maybe a “sophisticated light comedy” featuring adultery and edgy bondage.
This movie was probably the best in the series - the story of Eustace’s redemption was well done and the actor cast for the role did a superb job. I read on another article that the opening night was especially bad but that word of mouth from people who went and saw it increased turnout as the weekend went on and that “exit interviews” (didn’t know such a thing existed for movies) gave it very high marks from those who saw it.