‘Dumbledore’ Makes $6M In Thursday Night Dough – Box Office
deadline.comWarner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore whirled up $6M in Thursday previews that started at 2PM at 3,350 venues.The David Yates directed J.K.
Rowling co-scripted movie is expected to make between $45M-$50M over the Easter holiday weekend stateside; 73% of all K-12 schools off today according to Comscore.
Dumbledore is also expanding into 44 more offshore markets including France, Italy and Korea and looks to make at least $40M+ abroad, bringing the threequel’s global take to $157M.
Rotten Tomatoes critics gave Dumbledore a 51% Rotten rating which is an improvement on part 2’s 36% Rotten but still off the first movie’s 74% fresh.That figure is under the preview grosses of the first Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 2016 which made $8.75M (before a $29.66M first Friday and $74.4M opening) and its 2018 sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald which did $7.3M in its Thursday alone (not counting the sequel’s earlier week $1.8M previews).
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