Despite a number of critics, Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me pulled in $27M at the weekend box office. The number is impressive as it shot past its projections.
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Lionsgate’s Codeblack Film’s All Eyez On Me was front-loaded on Friday due to Tupac Shakur’s birthday seeing an opening day of $12.9M. The industry got very excited and started projecting an opening weekend that was well north of $30M. Lionsgate always had a sense that the movie’s fate lied in the mid $20M range, and that’s what we’re apt to see with a three-day at $27M in 3rd place after a Saturday that was -40% from Friday with $7.7M. Still that weekend number is very good, and above the tracking which everyone was seeing last week which was between $15M-$22M.
There was an unprecedented amount of advance ticket sales for this movie. Straight Outta Compton by comparison had a bulk of walk-up business. Codeblack agreed to handle the movie back in January and following the trailer for All Eyez On Me at CinemaCon, exhibitors started phoning Lionsgate.
A number of critics came forward to lambast the long-awaited, Benny Boom-directed film, including 50 Cent and Jada Pinkett Smith.
However, there have been plenty of positive reviews of the film, which stars Demetrius Shipp, Jr. as the late Tupac Shakur.
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