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‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Heading to $46M Opening at the Box Office


"Bob Marley: One Love" is posting a six-day domestic opening of $46.2 million, according to early estimates.

The Reinaldo Marcus Green-directed film, which benefits from having an ethnically diverse audience, earned a record $14 million from 3,536 theaters, the top midweek opener ever for Valentine’s Day, according to the studio. Rounded out by a cast that includes Lashana Lynch as Rita Marley and James Norton as producer and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, the movie aims to humanize a man whose talent and message caused him to, in many ways, transcend mortality. Marley’s songs have garnered a whopping seven billion official on-demand U.S. streams, per Luminate, while his Legend compilation is the second-longest charting album in Billboard 200 history (821 weeks).

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