The President’s Day cavalcade of 80s remakes continues on with About Last Night, which updates the 1986 romance that starred Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jim Belushi, and Elizabeth Perkins. Perfectly positioned with a Valentine’s Day release – it will face competition from other romantic themed pictures Winter’s Tale and Endless Love, which I’ll get to later today.
About Last Night, however, has a pretty big ace up its sleeve in the form of Kevin Hart who couldn’t be more popular right now with the massive success of last month’s Ride Along. Costars include Michael Ealy, Regina Hall, and Joy Bryant. The combination of Hart and its well-timed release leads me to believe this could open very big, perhaps even surpassing Robocop – another high-profile 80s reboot. For comparisons sake, it could open similar to what The Best Man Holiday did in November with $30 million.
The four day holiday gross may push About Last Night beyond that number by a bit. This film should especially do well with African-American audiences, who made up 87% of Holiday‘s opening weekend crowd. Bottom line: Kevin Hart’s run of box office fortune in 2014 should continue here.
About Last Night opening weekend prediction: $36.8 million (Friday to Monday gross)
For my prediction on Robocop, click here:
https://toddmthatcher.com/2014/02/09/robocop-box-office-prediction/
For my prediction on Winter’s Tale, click here:
https://toddmthatcher.com/2014/02/09/winters-tale-box-office-prediction/
For my prediction on Endless Love, click here:
https://toddmthatcher.com/2014/02/09/endless-love-box-office-prediction/
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