David Leitch’s Bullet Train easily topped Friday’s chart with $12.6 million on its opening day, including $4.6 million in Thursday previews.
Brad Pitt leads a star-studded cast in this tale of a hitman roaming a high-speed Japanese bullet train. Other marquee names include Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon and Sandra Bullock.
Sony, which has been waging an aggressive marketing campaign in hopes of attracting interest, is eyeing a domestic debut in the $30 million range. Critics haven’t exactly embraced Bullet Train, which currently holds a 53 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences awarded the film a B+ CinemaScore.
Bullet Train is the studio’s last big offering of the summer, putting more pressure on the film’s performance. Generally, the summer box office season runs through Labor Day, but delays due to the pandemic continue and studios are seeing some of their movies delayed in post-production.
The weekend’s other new offering is Jay Chandrasekhar’s comedy Easter Sunday, starring Joe Coy as a struggling actor and comedian who attends a raucous holiday meal with his Filipino family.
Easter Sunday is headed for a $5 million debut after earning $2 million on Friday, in line with expectations.
Jimmy O. Yang, Tia Carrere, Brandon Wardell, Eva Noblezada, Lydia Gaston, Asif Ali, Rodney To, Tiffany Haddish and Lou Diamond Phillips star in the Universal film.
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