I don’t know much about “Blue Beetle” from Warner Bros and apparently no one else does, either.
After a tepid $3 million preview night, “BB” took in less than $7 million on Friday. That’s $10 mil total. It’s facing a disastrous $24 to $28 million opening weekend.
Warner Bros is riding hight on “Barbie” so they may not notice. But “BB” follows “The Flash” in the DC Comics movie trash can. There’s one more DC movie — “Aquaman” — and then the new DC regime kicks in.
You’d have thunk that WB could have leveraged “Barbie” to promote “Blue Beetle,” but they didn’t. So maybe this is all a little intentional. Still the Bug has mixed reviews and a B minus Cinemascore. so we’ll be seeing it on Max pretty soon.
Also dead on arrival: Universal’s “Strays.” This is actually much worse — just $3.4 million for Thursday plus Friday. I can’t make a dog joke because of PETA but frankly This dog won’t hunt.
