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Box Office: ‘Novocaine’ Leading ‘Black Bag’ and ‘Mickey 17’ in Close Race for First as Theaters Potentially Face the Slowest Weekend of 2025
Jack Quaid's 'Novocaine' is beating 'Mickey 17' and Steven Soderbergh's 'Black Bag,' but the box office could turn in its slowest weekend for 2025.
Director Steven Soderbergh’s star-packed film, which features names like Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender and Pierce Brosnan, earned $2.8 million across Friday and previews from 2,705 theaters. The animated title was originally produced for Warner Bros. Discovery’s now-retitled streaming service HBO Max, but was shopped to buyers in 2022 amid the company’s restructuring. The film received negative reviews out of its Sundance premiere — hardly the warm critical response A24 is accustomed to — and the middling “C+” grade on Cinema Score indicates general audiences aren’t sweetening the reputation either.
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