Doctor Sleep movie good reviews and huge losses!

The box office last weekend turned into a bloody battlefield for a large number of films unable to break into and convince viewers. The timing was partly helped by the launch of the Disney + platform on November 12.

The biggest shock was the movie based on Stephen King's Sleep Doctor, a sequel to The Shining, which grossed from $ 25 million to $ 30 million domestically. The R-rated horror film has all the winning cards from good reviews, the brand of novelist Stephen King and the support of Warner Bros.

Instead, the film went into a coma. It opened for $ 14.1 million domestically and lost to Roland Emmerich's big-budget Midway, which earned $ 17.5 million.
Warner Bros. executives did not play the usual role of box office calls on Sunday morning and remained behind the scenes to understand what went wrong.

The studio has been hit by a series of disasters in the past few months. With a few exceptions, Joker, who recently made a billion dollars globally, and It: Chapter 2, another film based on Steven King's novels, has earned $ 460 million so far. The Joker alone will make a profit of $ 600 million, more than enough to absorb any losses from Gold Finch and Doctor Sleep, which cost $ 47 million net to produce after tax cuts and incentives.

Doctor sleep was not the only loser last weekend. Emilia Clark and Henry Golding's Last Christmas for Universal lost $ 11.6 million, and in the second round of the weekend grossed $ 12.5 million.

`` This weekend was a strange world at the box office, '' says Paul Diergerbaden of Comscore, noting that box office revenues from a year to date are still lagging behind 2018 by 5.5 percent, but still ahead of 2017 and other years.

In other words, on the same weekend a year ago, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas grossed about $ 67.6 million, while Bohemian Rhapsody made $ 31.2 million.