‘RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN’ earns the worst opening for any Dreamworks film with $5.2M domestically.
As expected, Disney and Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny won the weekend with $60M domestic, and a worldwide total of $130M. Sound kinda low for Harrison Ford’s final go as Indy? Well, it is. These are disastrous numbers, especially with reports of a budget of $295M+, heavy on the plus. So what happened? Well, this is actually continuing a trend of big-budget movies that have flopped, such as The Flash, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and now this. There’s a lesson to be learned that maybe it’s wise to truly gauge what the audience is clamoring for, not just what the stockholders want.
A shy adolescent learns that she comes from a fabled royal family of legendary sea krakens and that her destiny lies in the depths of the waters, which is bigger than she could have ever imagined.
Sixteen-year-old Ruby Gillman learns that she is in the next legendary line of sea krakens. Despite her lofty destiny, she is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High. Ruby struggles even more to fit in when her mother forbids her from going to the beach. After disobeying her mother’s rules, she discovers that she is descended from the warrior Kraken queens and will ascend to the throne as the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas, her grandmother. The krakens are a race sworn to protect the world oceans from the vain, power-hungry mermaids by battling with eons. Ruby would need to embrace Chelsea, a mermaid-turned-human who enrolls at Oceanside High School.
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse– $11.5M/$339.8M
3. Elemental– $11.3M/$88.7M
4. No Hard Feelings– $7.5M/$29.3M
5. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts– $7M/$136.1M
6. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (review) – $5.2M
This is very disappointing. Dreamworks Animation’s enjoyable and very inclusive Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken really bombed with just $5.2M. For a major $70M production that is eye-opening. Perhaps animation is just going through a bad phase right now? Certainly, Disney and Pixar are struggling, too. One only needs to look at the middling Elemental numbers for that.
7. The Little Mermaid– $5.1M/$280.9M
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