This is pretty much the lowest box office weekend since last February.
The new releases are all duds, starting with “Blink Twice,” a psycho sexual thriller directed by Zoe Kravitz and starring Channing Tatum as a much better looking Jeffrey Epstein.
The only winners in this one are the lead actresses, Naomi Ackie and Adria Arjona as young women who get lured to a sex island where they will eventually be killed by Tatum’s megalomaniac named Slater King.
There are large plot holes, a lack of logic, and in the end, just enough violence as a payoff to keep the crowd awake. It’s an Amazon MGM release which means it will go to Amazon Prime soon and that will be that.
Weekend take: under $9 million, maybe less.
Also debuting this weekend: a Christian film called “The Forge,” which is not named for the great Miami club and restaurant. There’s no one in the cast known to moviegoers. Maybe they’re great. It’s from Sony and won’t make $8 million.
There’s also a new version of “The Crow” from Lions Gate, which should also do less than $9 million.
These are the dog days of summer. We’re praying for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” to be a hit on September 6th.
