Weekend Box-Office: Will Smith Steals ‘Focus’ From ‘Fifty Shades’ But Still Underwhelms, Oscar Pics Get Bumps
“I got reinvigorated after the failure of 'After Earth.' I stopped working for a year and a half. I had to dive into why it was so important for me to have number-one movies,” Will Smith recently said about his sci-fi film that failed to open higher than #3 or earn more than $30 million back in the summer of 2013. Well, Big Willy, we have good news and bad news. The good news is you do have a #1 opening movie with the romantic caper film “Focus.” The bad news is, at $19 million, it’s your lowest-grossing number one movie since, well, ever, unless you include “Six Degrees Of Separation” which wasn’t a lead role and which was released in 1993. In the same interview, Smith seemed to suggest that quality not quantity is what really matters, so hopefully he won’t be as “devastated” as he was back then.
How’s “Fifty Shades Of Grey” doing? Depends on where you live. At home, the movie fell another 50% in week three and dropped to number four. That’s not terrible, not amazing, but the...