Bumblebee
Action & Adventure Paramount PG-13 1h 54m Released Dec 21, 2018 Discussed 2023–2024
Opening weekend
$21.7M
3,550 theaters
Per-theater average
$6,100
opening weekend
Domestic total
$127.2M
5.9× its opening
Worldwide total
$464.7M
27% domestic
Production budget
$102.0M
4.6× worldwide
RT critics
91%
RT audience
75%
-16 vs critics
Metacritic
66
Where it turns up
Friday, June 9, 2023 Second weekend of June 2023
In the note
However in this case, they are not the problem, this film was destined to go where it’s going from the phrase ‘go project' and both Marketing and Distribution did exceptional work. The last version of this IP, Bumblebee, moved on from the 'A' level Michael Bay/Mark Wahlberg topline of The Last Knight, towards a direction that wasn’t star powered.
Friday, December 13, 2024 Second weekend of December 2024
In the note
But there’s another component that was key to it achieving the outlier status it got to over Christmas, Disney kind of sat out that Christmas (well, they had Mary Poppins, but same same), and there were a couple of IP rebuilds like Spider Verse and Bumblebee, so the competitive landscape around it wasn’t terribly challenging.