NEW MUTANTS Snags $7m Opening Weekend
After more delays than I care to count this morning, Josh Boone’s X-Men horror movie, The New Mutants opened in theaters this past weekend and managed to snag an impressive $7M debut.
It’s even more impressive considering that it is one of the few films to hit theaters in 2020 with only 62% of theaters in the U.S. actually open – excluding major cities like NYC and LA Angeles – and that the capacity is limited to only 25% to 50%.
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Directed by Josh Boone (The Stand) from a screenplay he co-wrote with Knate Lee based on comics by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, it’s produced by Karen Rosenfelt, Lauren Shuler Donner, and Simon Kinberg (The Twilight Zone).
Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, and Charlie Heaton, it’s set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive.
Rated PG-13 for violent content, some disturbing/bloody images, some strong language, thematic elements and suggestive material, the film sports a 29% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: Rendering a list of potentially explosive ingredients mostly inert, The New Mutants is a franchise spinoff that’s less than the sum of its super-powered parts.
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