{"id":132384,"date":"2024-02-27T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=132384"},"modified":"2024-02-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:00:00","slug":"bob-marley-one-love-jams-to-massive-51m-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=132384","title":{"rendered":"Bob Marley \u2018One Love\u2019 Jams to Massive $51M Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_132372\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132372\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132372\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MCDBOMA_PA015-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MCDBOMA_PA015-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MCDBOMA_PA015-1280x721.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MCDBOMA_PA015-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MCDBOMA_PA015-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MCDBOMA_PA015.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-132372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE, from left: Kingsley Ben-Adir as Bob Marley, Lashana Lynch, 2024. ph: Chiabella James \/ \u00a9 Paramount Pictures \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Paramount\u2019s<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/bob-marley\/\"><em>Bob Marley<\/em><\/a><em>: One Love\u00a0<\/em>delivered a huge $50 million-plus domestic opening over the six-day Valentine\u2019s Day-Presidents Day corridor, enough to crush\u00a0<em>Madame Web<\/em>\u2018s $25.8 million start, a record worst for Sony\u2019s superhero adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Estimates show<em>\u00a0One Love<\/em>\u00a0racking in an estimated $51.1 million for the six days domestically, including $33.2 million for the four-day Presidents Day weekend and a record $14 million on Valentine\u2019s Day (rival studios say the decision to go out on sweetheart\u2019s day day was a smart choice in building momentum). The movie\u2019s weekend debut is on par with the starts of such musical biopics as\u00a0<em>Rocketman<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>Elvis<\/em>, and did almost double the business it was tracking to do. (Grosses could shift once weekend actuals are issued Tuesday morning following the Monday holiday.)<\/p>\n<p>Overseas,\u00a0<em>One Love\u00a0<\/em>earned an impressive $29 million for a global launch of $80 million against a $70 million budget. The film opened at No. 1 in 13 markets and set new opening day records for a music biopic in the U.K., France and other territories. In Jamaica, the film set the record for the biggest film opening of all time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/kingsley-ben-adir-bob-marley-one-love-trailer-1235712571\/\"><em>One Love<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>director Reinaldo Marcus Green\u2019s depiction of the iconic Jamaican musician and Rastafarian stars newcomer Kingsley Ben-Adir. It chronicles Marley making his 1977 album\u00a0<em>Exodus<\/em>\u00a0and the events of the next several years, including an assassination attempt and his belief that music could heal his nation in its post-colonial era. The movie\u2019s producers include Marley\u2019s children Ziggy and Cedella, and his wife, Rita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount\u2019s\u00a0Bob Marley: One Love\u00a0delivered a huge $50 million-plus domestic opening over the six-day Valentine\u2019s Day-Presidents Day corridor, enough to crush\u00a0Madame Web\u2018s $25.8 million start, a record worst for Sony\u2019s superhero adventures. Estimates show\u00a0One Love\u00a0racking in an estimated $51.1 million for the six days domestically, including $33.2 million for the four-day Presidents Day weekend and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132386,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132384\/revisions\/132386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}