‘Bad Boys for Life,’ which is the third instalment in the saga directed by Michael Bay, follows on from ‘Bad Boys’ and ‘Bad Boys 2’ . — Handout via AFPsequel appears to be paying off, taking in an estimated US$59.2 million for the start of a US holiday weekend, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported yesterday.stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as wise-cracking detectives who reunite after years apart to take on a murderous Miami drug cartel.
Its North American ticket sales — estimated at US$68.1 million when today’s Martin Luther King Jr holiday is included — are nearly twice original predictions, according to Variety.com., starring Robert Downey Jr, placed second with an estimated US$22.5 million for the Friday-through-Sunday period .
The presence of Downey, hugely popular in the Marvel superhero films, and of an all-star voice cast including Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, Antonio Banderas, Rami Malek, Octavia Spencer and Marion Cotillard, may have helped boost its fortunes.1917One critic called the Sam Mendes movie, filmed as if in one long, continuous shot, a “protean display of virtuoso filmmaking.”
Despite a lack of big stars, it has won both the Golden Globe and the Producers Guild of America awards for best drama, and is now seen as a best-picture favourite at the Oscars., slid one spot from last weekend to fourth, taking in US$9.6 million . The action sequel stars Dwayne, at US$8.4 million . Globally, the finale of the nine-film