‘Death on the Nile’ Sails to $1.1 Million at Thursday Box Office
thewrap.comproduced another PR liability for the studio in the interim. That said, “Death on the Nile” is projected by independent trackers for an opening between $11-13 million.
That would be less than half of the opening of its predecessor, “Murder on the Orient Express,” which opened to $28.6 million in November 2017 and in its previews made $1.6 million.
That film ultimately grossed $352 million worldwide. The studio is also hopeful though that “Death on the Nile” will benefit from the longer President’s Day weekend in its second week and from foot traffic on Valentine’s Day.
Kenneth Branagh returns to direct “Nile” and also star as Agatha Christie’s iconic detective Hercule Poirot, this time investigating a murder on a glamorous river steamer traversing the Nile river in Egypt during a couple’s idyllic honeymoon that turns tragic.
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