“Where the Crawdads Sing,” Sony’s adaptation of the hit novel by Delia Owens and produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, earned 2.3 million in its Thursday preview screenings that began at 3 p.m.
The film played at 3,150 locations on Thursday and will open in approximately 3,625 locations this weekend.“Crawdads” opens new this week against Paramount’s animated family film “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank,” which also had previews on Thursday starting at 3 p.m.
It made 505,000 from 2,650 locations; it’s scheduled to open on approximately 3,400 screens this weekend.
Both films are expected to fall behind “Thor: Love and Thunder” as it moves into its second weekend.Sony is projecting a 9-10 million three-day opening weekend against a 24 million budget.
And while “Crawdads” is aimed at a younger crowd, prominently featuring a new Taylor Swift song “Carolina” as a means of attracting those audiences, the film is also
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