© Watchr Media • All rights reserved, Birds of Prey Rumor Involving Black Mask's Obscene Photos Are Fake News Says Director, Birds of Prey Director Throws Support Behind Suicide Squad Ayer Cut: I Know the Pain, How the Canary Cry in Birds of Prey Was Created to Look as Real as Possible, Birds of Prey VOD Rental Price Drops to $5.99 After Just 2 Weeks, Birds of Prey 2 May Give Us a Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Relationship, Moff Gideon Actor Hypes Up the Battles Yet to Come in The Mandalorian Season 2, Star Wars Ralph McQuarrie Funko Pop! The Invisible Man came out on DVD / Blu-ray / 4K last week, but that wasnât enough to overtake Sonic the Hedgehog on the DEG Watched at Home chart this week. Follow me at @ScottMendelson and "like" The Ticket Booth on Facebook. The Birds of Prey production budget is reportedly around $97.1 million, the least expensive price tag for a DCEU film. Unfortunately, this was also 19% lower than the same weekend last year and this isnât normal. British screenwriter Christina Hodson was announced to be writing the film in November. Birds of Prey stars Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, reprising her role from 2016's poorly received but Oscar-winning box office juggernaut Suicide Squad. The film is projected to earn $24 million to $25 million over the weekend, which is much better than predicted and puts it in a virtual tie with Sonic the Hedgehog for top spot. Maybe it can save face though. International Box Office: Sonic Speeds its Way to $100 million Globally, Weekend Wrap-Up: Sonic Sets Records and Returns 2020 to the Top, Weekend Estimates: Sonic is Faster than a Speeding Pikachu, best weekend by a video game adaptation of all time, Friday Estimates: Sonic Laps the Competition, the best single day for a movie based on a game. Batman apparently won't be in the picture. The filmâs reviews are still in the mid-80% range and assuming audiences like it as much as critics did, it will earn enough to cover its production budget sooner rather than later. On the positive side, the holdovers held on really well and that helped limit losses. Things will probably get more interesting next weekend when the family-friendly Sonic the Hedgehog opens, but for now, Birds of Prey is the main attraction at the multiplex. However, the movie industry is trying to rapidly adapt to this and so are we. Whereas something like Justice League, which is said to have cost nearly $300 million after reshoots, needed to make a lot more than the $657 million it pulled in to be a hit. Last year's Shazam cost $100 million to make . Weekend Predictions: Can Quinn Capture Audienceâs Attention? Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey Wonder Woman 1984 Ficha en IMDb Ficha en FilmAffinity Aves de presa es una película de superhéroes estadounidense de 2020, distribuida por Warner Bros. Pictures y basada en el equipo de superhéroes del mismo nombre de DC Comics. That said, this filmâs reviews have slipped just below the reviews Detective Pikachu earned and Detective Pikachu didnât open on a holiday, so that does make a difference. Sonic the Hedgehog earned first place for the fourth week in a row, taking full advantage of the pause in new movies caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The filmâs reviews have slipped, but they do remain in the overall positive level, while its A from CinemaScore is going to be a big help going forward. tells a story that is less grounded in reality. A huge take at the box office can only be good for the all-woman superhero movie, in a genre notoriously known for being over-saturated with male-led stories. theaters, 4.3 weeks average run per theater. And while the misalignment in Valentineâs Day did have an effect, this is still a good result for the box office. The Call of the Wild is earning good reviews, but not great reviews, while its buzz is far too quiet for its massive production budget. Warner Bros. is also the studio behind V For Vendetta ($132 million in 2006) and Watchmen ($185 million in 2009). This is miles below expectations; itâs even lower than projections based on Thursdayâs previews. The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits. Vogue recently reported the budget for Birds of Prey is £59 million ($75 m). It is still too early to tell where the film will finish internationally, but there is also reasons to be optimistic there, as it has nearly $100 million in just two weeks of release, including $38.3 million in 56 markets this weekend. Weekend Predictions: Will Audience Answer the Call? It is likely to have better legs than most new releases, because of its target audiences, which is a mix of families and older moviegoers who would be fans of the original novel. What we know for sure is Birds of Prey will bring Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Black Canary ( Jurnee Smollett-Bell) into the fold.