In the case of comedies on the 2025 film launch calendar, Freakier Friday simply made a stable identify for itself over this previous weekend when the Disney film debuted in film theaters. Whereas an increasing number of motion pictures today aren’t capable of make a revenue within the aggressive and sophisticated panorama that’s the Hollywood business, the Freaky Friday sequel has already handed that milestone.
Freakier Friday’s present worldwide field workplace haul is reportedly $46.5 million, per Field Workplace Mojo, and it allegedly was made with a manufacturing price range of $45 million. So, the film has already made again the cash spent on it, although I guess that’s earlier than its advertising price range. It’s a formidable rating for Freakier Friday and indicators it’s wanting like a industrial win for the Home of Mouse after being the No. 1 comedy in America over the weekend! Jamie Lee Curtis additionally shared the information:
Curtis declared “WOMEN GET THINGS DONE!” within the Instagram publish sharing the excellent news for Freakier Friday. The film hit theaters this previous weekend to $29 million in home field workplace {dollars} behind horror film Weapons claiming the No. 1 spot. That’s over $10 million greater than another comedies this yr like The Bare Gun, which opened at $16.8 million on the home entrance, and One of many Them Days, which began off its run with $11.8 million.
That makes Freakier Friday the very best live-action comedy opening of 2025 following a optimistic vital response, together with CinemaBlend’s Freakier Friday evaluate and followers reactions, like our personal Riley Utley applauding the film over its superb callbacks. The film reunites Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan to play mom/daughter Tess and Anna Coleman twenty years after they first swapped our bodies. This time, they swap with two youngsters, who’re decided to interrupt up Anna’s marriage ceremony and, within the course of, hyperlink again with Chad Michael Murray’s Jake.
Freakier Friday was born out of Jamie Lee Curtis asking Disney if they might make the sequel after she met tons of followers who needed to see a follow-up whereas touring the world for the Halloween motion pictures. It’s helmed by Nisha Ganatra from a script by Jordan Weiss, and is produced by Curtis alongside Kristen Burr and Andrew Gunn.
After all, what’s maybe extra spectacular to a film’s success is making a revenue previous its price range. This coming weekend, the one large launch is No person 2, which is an motion comedy, but additionally rated R, versus Freakier Friday leaning towards a extra household pleasant demographic and towards girls. So it’s very a lot attainable the Disney comedy might proceed have one other stable week on the field workplace and turn into even an even bigger success. We’ll preserve you up to date as the approaching weekend performs out.