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Atomic Blonde Hits $1.5 Million On Thursday Night, Emoji Movie Has A Little Traction

Atomic Blonde Hits $1.5 Million On Thursday Night, Emoji Movie Has A Little Traction

Variety reports that The Emoji Movie may have been able to scratch together some cash this past Thursday, but Atomic Blonde broke out into the lead regardless — an impressive feat for an R-rated action movie playing against an all-ages animated film.

On its opening night, David Leitch's Atomic Blonde opened up with a $1.5 million opening night. By contrast, The Emoji Movie made $900,000 on Thursday. I know, we were all hoping the movie with the talking piece of feces voiced by frigging Patrick Stewart would do so much better than that, right?

Sony predicted a $20 million dollar opening weekend for The Emoji Movie, but the critics have been bombing the hell out of this thing. Of course, kids don't often visit Rotten Tomatoes a whole lot, do they? That being said, I'm not sure many kids would be interested in this level of nakedly pandering detritus either. Assigning actual personalities to little symbols on a phone remains one of the most baffling ideas ever to come out of Hollywood, and let us never forget that they made a movie about food mascots and spent $45 million to do it.

I hope Atomic Blonde goes onto win the weekend, or, should that fail, that Dunkirk takes a second week. Atomic Blonde is a solidly fun action movie, and my bleeding-heart sensibilities desperately wants to see another female-led action film to do well this year. I've yet to see Dunkirk, but it looks pretty damn great. The reviews have been good, and Christopher Nolan is a fine director.

As for The Emoji Movie, may it be turned into a totem mounted up in the bowels of American cinema, reminding all that there are indeed some ideas too bad to go through with.

Of course, this movie could not make a penny past the $900,000 mark, and they'd still greenlight the first half-decent Chester Cheetah script that came their way.


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Joshua DavisonAbout Joshua Davison

Josh is a longtime super hero comic fan and an aspiring comic book and fiction writer himself. He also trades in videogames, Star Wars, and Magic: The Gathering, and he is also a budding film buff. He's always been a huge nerd, and he hopes to contribute something of worth to the wider geek culture conversation. He is also happy to announce that he is the new Reviews Editor for Bleeding Cool. Follow on Twitter @joshdavisonbolt.
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