https://deadline.com/2026/05/box-office-devil-wears-prada-2-michael-1236877817/
Andy Serkis’ animated take of the George Orwell novel gets a C- and a very low 28% definite recommend from general audiences. Kids under 12 got it though with a 90% positive score and a 60% must see right away. Guy leaning at 53% with the 18-34 a low turnout at 35%, but better over 45 at close to 40%. The over 55 alone (the faith-based crowd) showed up at 25%. The movie is playing flat everywhere but it’s doing better in the South, Midwest, Mountain and West. The AMC Empire (NY) is the pic’s top grossing location with just over $3k.
For context, here are some films with +/- 2 general audience recommend score. Basically, it has some real stinkers (Cats started higher but fell to 30% on second weekend) but also films that were genuinely divisive/rejected by their target audience.
Men, Immaculate, Die, My Love, Holmes & Watson, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul., Honey Don’t, Separation, Voyagers, Firestarter, Freelance, I.S.S., The Turning, Night Swim.
The functional floor I've found with posttrak recommend anecdotes is 20% (downhill at 19%, bad Samaritan at 20%). Those much better kid numbers are a great illustration why kids movies have a much higher floor – back when age data was publicly listed on cinemascore's website, the average animation film score by under 18 year old audiences is an A- (source: "grumier old men" marketing article you can find on jstore).
The worst animated kids film score I can recall seeing is playmobil at 1.5 stars/36% recommend from the general audience
by SilverRoyce
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2.5m weekend and call it a day
The Laughterhouse is lacking laughs.
Did anyone actually believe this movie would had a chance?
Just a complete atrocity all around. They’ve resorted to paying meme accounts on insta and tiktok to release half-assed memes with clips from the movie.
Looks like the guy who said this:
> They also will lose IMAX screens to The Hung for Gollum in the next year. WB moved LOTR to December 2027 a couple of months earlier, and now IMAX has no reason not to support The Hunt for Gollum.
https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1t0xm6y/imax_cfo_calls_disneys_infinity_vision_a/ojcd7bk/
…is about to take a colossal L since, no matter what others say, Russo Brothers still has pretty good Marvel portfolio whereas Andy Serkis is keep misfiring when it comes to directing. In fact, **Secret Wars** DOES appear in IMAX schedule whereas **The Hunt for Gollum** doesn’t.
The moment I watched the trailer I knew this was gonna be horrible.
A 60 percent must see from kids is more painful than anything the critics could say
Even half the kids don’t think it’s worth the drive to the theater for something Netflix passed on
If you just stuck to the source material and done it in the style of Fantastic Mr Fox or Del Toro’s Pinocchio. You’d probably have a great film.
Expensive animation for those. Probably a better business strategy than this pile of shit though.
I’m sure Serkis’ Lord of the Rings movie will turn out great, right?
Trailers looked awful to me but was willing to keep an open mind if it good reviews. Then I saw it was Distributed by Angel Studios and I refuse to go to any movie association with them.