MGM/UA hopes younger viewers are hungry for some cannibal love when Bones and All opens wide on Wednesday, November 23rd. Based on a 2015 novel by Camille DeAngelis, Taylor Russell and Timothee Chalamet headline the road flick from director Luca Guadagnino. Costars include Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, Andre Holland, Chloe Sevigny, David Gordon Green, and Jessica Harper.
The subject matter could be a challenging one for holiday crowds though Chalamet has a rabid fanbase that could turn up. The Thanksgiving release (it’s out five screens November 18 before the expansion) is also the only holiday newbie geared toward teens and young adults. Strange World is for the kids while Devotion and The Fabelmans skew older. Reviews are pretty appetizing with an 89% Rotten Tomatoes score following its September debut at the Venice Film Festival.
With a reported count of around 2500 venues, I’ll say Bones gets to mid single digits for the three-day and for the five.
Bones and All opening weekend prediction: $3.5 million (Friday to Sunday); $5.3 million (Wednesday to Sunday)
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Societally a new low to attempt normalizing cannibalism — the practice is heinous and taboo for good reason in sane cultures, yet the film industry now wants us to empathize with extreme perpetrator cruelty instead of seeking justice for victims. Sick! I pray this film and all similar horror films fail big at the box office.
Give us instead more spiritually resonant people-who-need-people films like Elvis and a tour de force performance by Oscar caliber Austin Butler, not twisted stories about godless psychopathic perverted people who eat people.