Topline
“Tron: Ares” opened with a disappointing $33.5 million at the domestic box office, according to early estimates reported by the Hollywood trade publicationswith the Jared Leto-led reboot coming in below expectations and well below the opening weekend sales figures of the final installment released in 2010.
The new installment of ‘Tron’ comes 15 years since Disney rebooted the franchise with ‘Tron: Legacy’.
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Key facts
The new installment in the “Tron” franchise, starring Leto, Greta Lee and Evan Peters, grossed about $14.3 million on its opening night on Friday, but only grossed $33.5 million from 4,000 theaters in North America over the course of the entire weekend.
“Tron: Ares” had a reported budget of $180 million, making it the most expensive film in the history of the sci-fi franchise, and it is unclear whether the film will be able to recoup its budget after a slow opening weekend.
The gross profit for the weekend is well below the predictions of experts – forecasters of Box Office Pro estimated that the film could gross $40 million to $48 million before its debut.
The film has received mixed reviews from both critics and audiences, scoring an average of 5.8 on the film’s website. Metacritical.
How does the new ‘tron’ movie compare to the previous installments?
The original “Tron” was released in 1982 and failed to make a big splash at the box office, grossing only about $33 million over the course of its entire theatrical run. However, the film ultimately became a science fiction cult classic and expectations were high when Disney announced a sequel decades later. That sequel, ‘Tron: Legacy’ starring Garret Hedlund, Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde, was eventually released in 2010 and proved to be a much more successful hit for the company. “Tron: Legacy” opened with $44 million and went on to gross $172 million domestically, combining with another $228 million in international markets for a total of $400 million. The reboot reportedly had a budget of around $170 million. Despite the film’s success, work on a sequel to the science fiction hit stalled for years. Leto was reportedly in talks with Disney about starring in the third film already in 2017but the actor didn’t confirm his involvement in the film until 2020.
What other movies were hits at the box office this weekend?
“Roofman,” the comedy-crime drama starring Channing Tatum, also opened this weekend in 3,362 theaters, grossing an estimated $8 million, in line with expectations. The relatively mild opening was still enough to push “Roofman” into second place at the domestic box office. Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” a holdover released in September, stayed in third place and grossed $6.8 million in its third weekend in theaters. “One Battle After Another” is now Anderson’s most successful film at the domestic box office, but like “Tron: Ares” faces an uphill battle to recoup its budget, which is reportedly around $130 million.
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