Brad Pitt's 'Ad Astra' and Sylvester Stallone's 'Rambo: Last Blood' no match for 'Downton Abbey' at the box office
Raise your tea cups! The big-screen encore of"Downton Abbey" handily thumped both Brad Pitt's"Ad Astra" and Sylvester Stallone's"Rambo: Last Blood" in theaters over the weekend in one of the more unlikely box-office upsets.
"We always knew that there was a tremendous amount of love for 'Downton Abbey,'" said Lisa Bunnell, Focus' distribution chief."But as we started on working with promotions and special events for the movie, we realized that the love for 'Downton Abbey' goes way beyond what we even thought it was going to be."
Reviews were similarly strong for James Grey's"Ad Astra," which premiered earlier in the month at the Venice Film Festival. It sits at 83% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and comes on the heels of plaudits for Pitt in Quentin Tarantino's"Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood" . "It's been a very rough go for many of the Fox releases," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore."I think this is a solid debut. It's certainly an expensive movie. Anytime you swing for the fences with an outer space film, you have to spend quite a bit of money."
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