Box office: OnceUponATimeInHollywood riding toward $40M opening; TheLionKing stays No. 1
is riding toward a $40 million opening at the domestic box office, according to early Friday returns. The numbers, of course, could shift as the weekend unfolds.
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino's ninth film — and the first made without the aid of Harvey Weinstein — is being billed as the only original tentpole of the summer for adults, which is otherwise dominated by franchise installments and other branded IP.will score a career-best start for Tarantino, thanks to his ardent fanbase and the allure of seeing Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt together on the big screen for the first time. So far, it is skewing heavily male.
cost at least $90 million to produce after tax rebates and incentives, likely making it Tarantino's most expensive film. It's getting the widest release of the maverick filmmaker's career, or more than 3,500 theaters. The critically acclaimed movie, running two hours and 41 minutes, currently boasts a Rotten Tomatoes score of 87 percent (that's down slightly from 93 percent following
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