There’s a battle between love and “Death” at this weekend’s domestic box office, as the Jennifer Lopez rom-com “Marry Me” and Kenneth Branagh’s follow-up t…
” looks to bow at No. 1 with a muted $12.8 million from 3,912 locations, while “Marry Me” will follow with an expected $8 million intake.
While sequels are usually expected to build on the financial success of their predecessors, the box office fate of “Death on the Nile” may have seemed prewritten for quite some time now. The production was greenlit shortly after the release of “Murder on the Orient Express” and was subsequently inherited by Disney after the studio’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox was finalized in 2019.
Directed by Kenneth Branagh, the adaptation follows the mustachioed detective Hercule Poirot as he attempts to solve a murder on board a glamorous river cruise in Egypt. The film boasts a deep cast of stars that includes Gadot, Annette Bening, Russell Brand and Letitia Wright.had praise for the film, writing that it is “crisper and craftier than ‘Murder on the Orient Express’; it’s a moderately diverting dessert that carries you right along.
Romantic comedies hardly carry much box office weight anymore, with 2018’s “Crazy Rich Asians” representing the last smash hit in the genre. However, with a modest production budget of $23 million, a “B+” CinemaScore indicating positive audience reception and both Valentine’s Day and the President’s Day holiday weekend on the horizon, Universal is anticipating a happy ending for the release.
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