“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Outperforming Box Office Projection

Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, opened this weekend against stiff competition — ie: The Lion King, in its second weekend — but it’s performed well nonetheless. In fact, Tarantino is slated to have his best opening weekend ever, topping Inglorious Bastards, which netted $38 million in its opening.

Per Variety, the Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle is estimated to take in $40.2 million this weekend, more than $10 million more than original projections.

Columbia Pictures’ “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” was this weekend’s newcomer, taking in $16.8 million on Friday from 3,659 theaters — an opening day all-time record for director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino’s ninth film is also on track to become the filmmaker’s highest opening weekend ever with Saturday estimates placing the film at $40.2 million in opening weekend ticket sales.

That’s above earlier estimates which had originally placed the film at around $30 million for its opening weekend — about $8 million less than Tarantino’s previous box office record set by “Inglourious Basterds.” The Nazi era project opened with $38 million in 2009.

(via Variety)

On Rotten Tomatoes, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has an 85 percent critic rating, based on 281 reviews, and an audience score of 77 percent, based on over 2,000 reviews.