Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Box Office: “Deepwater” Puts Lions Gate in Deep Doo-Doo with $20 Mil Weekend

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“Deepwater Horizon” is about to drown. Any other cliches or metaphors? The Peter Berg directed Mark Wahlberg film may put Lions Gate into deep doo-doo with a $20 million weekend. The film cost at least $110 million. On Friday night it made just $7 million.

Lions Gate is waiting for their potential Oscar winner “La La Land” as it were  a water tank in the desert. But right now LGF stock is down $19.99. And Monday won’t be so great when the “Deepwater” numbers come in.

“Deepwater” is based on a true story, and gained a nice 81% on Rotten Tomatoes. But for some reason it’s not connecting with auidences.

Meanwhile, Tim Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” which  only has a 64% on RT, will score a $26 million weekend for Fox. Why? It’s fanciful vs. intense, it’s for kids vs. adults. Tough deal.

 

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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