The Good Liar
Drama Warner Bros. R 1h 50m Released Nov 15, 2019 Discussed 2019–2020
Opening weekend
$5.6M
2,439 theaters
Per-theater average
$2,298
opening weekend
Domestic total
$17.2M
3.1× its opening
Worldwide total
$33.9M
51% domestic
Production budget
$10.0M
3.4× worldwide
RT critics
64%
RT audience
85%
+21 vs critics
Metacritic
55
Where it turns up
Friday, November 15, 2019 Third weekend of November 2019
On the chart The Good Liar (opening): $5.6M
Expected 'Looks like around $8 million... unless they really flatten out tonight' Actual: $5.6M, they flattened
In the note
Figure it’s somewhere around $10 million. #3/#4 The Good Liar / Midway - The Good Liar looks pretty decent for an older adult drama, despite what you might have read in the trades.
Friday, November 6, 2020 Election week 2020
In the note
In a normal non Covid world, an adult drama with decent star power like this (think The Good Liar, or something like that) would probably gross $6 or $7 million, and I’m not sure it will be that far off that this weekend. True to the Game 2 - This sequel to the 2017 AA skewing indie opened on about 250 screens, which is about half of what the first film opened on. The first film opened to about a half million dollars, this one should end up about 60% of that. The Informer - This Joel Kinnaman indie opened on a couple of h