{"id":134268,"date":"2024-06-19T21:25:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134268"},"modified":"2024-06-19T21:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:25:06","slug":"box-office-will-smiths-bad-boys-4-delivers-huge-victory-for-actor-with-56m-u-s-debut-104-6m-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134268","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: Will Smith\u2019s \u2018Bad Boys 4\u2019 Delivers Huge Victory For Actor With $56M U.S. Debut, $104.6M Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-134258\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-9.28.37-AM-640x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-9.28.37-AM-640x300.png 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-9.28.37-AM-1280x600.png 1280w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-9.28.37-AM-160x75.png 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-9.28.37-AM-1024x480.png 1024w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-10-at-9.28.37-AM.png 1370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Martin Lawrence Will Smith in \u2018Bad Boys: Ride or Die\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p>Sony\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/bad-boys-ride-or-die-review-will-smith-martin-lawrence-1235913863\/\"><em>Bad Boys: Ride or Die<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>jolted the battered summer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/box-office\/\">box office<\/a>\u00a0back to life with a better-than-expected domestic opening of $56 million and $104.6 million globally.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, it puts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/will-smith\/\">Will Smith<\/a>\u00a0on the road to a career comeback two years after the infamous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/oscars-slap\/\">Oscars slap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ride or Die<\/em>, reuniting Smith with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/martin-lawrence\/\">Martin Lawrence<\/a>, is the fourth outing in Sony\u2019s long-running franchise and earned an A- CinemaScore in North America alongside generally positive reviews. Just as promising, 44 percent of the audience was between ages 18 and 34, showing Smith has a following among younger consumers. Black moviegoers made up the largest quadrant of the audience with 44 percent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ride or Die<\/em>\u00a0is arguably the first film of the summer to come in notably ahead of tracking, which had it opening in the $48 million to $50 million range. It\u2019s also the second biggest domestic launch of the season behind\u00a0<em>Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes<\/em>, which debuted to $58 million domestically.<\/p>\n<p>The $100 million film is the follow-up to<em>\u00a0Bad Boys for Life,<\/em>\u00a0which opened to $62 million domestically in January 2022 on its way to earning $426 million\u00a0at the global box office before theaters were shut due to the pandemic. The\u00a0<em>Bad Boys<\/em>\u00a0series is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lawrence Will Smith in \u2018Bad Boys: Ride or Die\u2019 Sony\u2019s\u00a0Bad Boys: Ride or Die\u00a0jolted the battered summer\u00a0box office\u00a0back to life with a better-than-expected domestic opening of $56 million and $104.6 million globally. Moreover, it puts\u00a0Will Smith\u00a0on the road to a career comeback two years after the infamous\u00a0Oscars slap. Ride or Die, reuniting Smith with\u00a0Martin [&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-134268","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\/134268","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=134268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134270,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134268\/revisions\/134270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}