Friday Box Office: Predicted Failures “Happytime Murders” and “A.X.L.” Bomb, “Crazy Rich Asians” Repeats at Top

“Crazy Rich Asians” repeats at the very best this weekend. They’re going to purchase another $20 million. Lovely!

The box office is otherwise a treacherous place when your reviews are really a bad one.

Both GlobalRoad’s “A.X.L.” and STX’s “Happytime Murders” scored just 22% each on RottenTomatoes. The reviews weren’t wrong, plus they didn’t help.

GlobalRoad is virtually bankrupt anyway. “A.X.L.” only made $812,500 on Friday night to get a possible $2.A million weekend. To make sure that show is now over. Reported by sources, Global Road no longer has sufficient money which is the reason they pulled Johnny Depp’s Notorious BIG movie seeking September. They can’t advertise it. And, says a resource, “they can’t cope with Johnny Depp.”

STX is usually a mystery for me. I’m sure they can be nice people. But exactly what are they doing? “Happytime Murders” is puppet porn. Last week it made $4 million for your projected weekend of $11 million. Their other movies this year were Amy Schumer’s beleaguered “I am Pretty” – -$48 million– “Den of Thieves” — $45 million– and — “Adrift” — $31 million. Quality is clearly not their objective.

They also have Mark Wahlberg’s disaster, “Mile 22,” which hit the $19 million mark a few days ago after 8 era of release. Mark will need to serve a great deal of Wahlburgers in making up with this one. STX has the potential to release one two actually good movies inside their mix, I’m absolutely clear on it. Please, guys, try.

PS GlobalRoad was previously Open Road, which won an Oscar for “Spotlight.” But installed out “Marshall” and from now on the universe is punishing them.