‘Uncharted’ Digs Up $44 Million 3-Day Opening at Box Office
thewrap.comWith that result, this $120 million blockbuster adaptation of the Playstation video game series has passed $100 million in global theatrical grosses having added an estimated $55.4 million internationally this weekend to bring its global total to $139 million through Monday.
While critics dismissed the film with a 40% Rotten Tomatoes score, a largely young and male audience has embraced it with an 89% audience score and a B+ on Rotten Tomatoes. “This result is yet another extraordinary testament to the appetite for the theatrical experience that Sony Pictures bet on.
Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg are brilliant together,” Sony Motion Picture Group President Josh Greenstein said in a statement. “Thank you to our sister company, PlayStation, for their incredible partnership, and all the many people who worked so hard to bring this film to life in a big, theatrical way.”As we noted on WrapPRO, the success of “Uncharted” would likely be determined not by fans of the games it is based on but on whether Tom Holland, still riding high off of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” could draw younger audiences to theaters.
With a solid start now under its belt, we will find out next weekend whether word-of-mouth will allow “Uncharted” to earn a decent hold before “The Batman” arrives on the first weekend of March and draws away considerable moviegoer attention as well as premium format support.
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