A good weekend for ‘Bad Boys’ at the box office
Will Smith returns to the No. 1 spot with the fourth entry in the franchise.
Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of June 7-9, 2024.
1. BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE
Weekend gross: $56M
Total domestic gross: $56M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA
Bad Boys: Ride or Die had a good weekend. The fourth film in Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s franchise turned in the fifth biggest opening weekend of 2024, just behind Kung Fu Panda 4’s $57,989,905.
The $56 million opening weekend was also the franchise’s second highest. Bad Boys For Life debuted with $62.5 million in January 2020, in the final months before the pandemic turned the movie industry upside down.
It’s still wild that Warner Bros. killed a Batgirl movie directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the duo behind the two most recent Bad Boys movies, in exchange for a tax write-off.
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