Bohemian Rhapsody is ready to rock the box office. The November release has entered box office tracking and it looks like it’s going to enjoy one healthy opening.
The Freddie Mercury/Queen biopic has entered box office tracking that suggests it will register a $30 million. That’s a solid start for almost any film but especially good for a music biopic. An opening of more than $26 million for the film would give it the second highest music biopic opening ever, after a $60 million opening in 2015 for Straight Outta Compton. The Tupac Shakur biopic, All Eyez on Me, opened to $26.4 million in 2017.
What could propel the film even further are the reviews. Early word is saying that star Rami Malek could be a lock for an Oscar nomination for his performance as Freddie Mercury and if the film gets similar notices, that’s bound to give the film a box office boost.
Bohemian Rhapsody opens against Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms and Paramount’s Tyler Perry comedy Nobody’s Fool, starring Tiffany Haddish. The audiences for all of those films are very different and there should be room for all of them. The Nutcracker entered tracking today at $23-26 million while Nobody’s Fool is tracking as high as $17 million.
