'Bohemian Rhapsody' tops the Thursday preview box office charts with $3.9 million

[masterofmystery]

#BohemianRhapsody scores $3.9 million at the Thursday box office https://t.co/1aYoCnm0dW pic.twitter.com/dVYlJBcBn6
- Variety (@Variety) November 2, 2018

FOX is enjoying its rare hit with the Queen biopic 'Bohemian Rhapsody', which brought in $3.9M from Thursday night previews, and is expected to make at least $35M this weekend (on a $52M budget

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[shannenb]

[war_machine_rox]

welp. I'm seeing The Nutcracker tonight with my mom and tomorrow with a friend and her kid. It looks cute and I'm not expecting much lol

damn at it costing that much tho. Has it been advertised a lot? I've only seen a couple trailers but I don't have live tv so idk

[ishumy]

Idk about the US and the UK, but I'm in a major Spanish city and I swear every street poster machine and bus stop has a BH ad. I've been wondering about the budget because they're so many

[war_machine_rox]

oh I was talking about The Nutcracker haha

now BH is always advertised when I watch YouTube at work so that I believe.

[sluttyroyals]

Honestly the only trailers I've seen are from the Nutcracker, I can't seem to escape it lol

[potatoehead25]

I saw the movie and i think Queen deserved so much better. I hate the fact that Bryan Singer keeps on ruining things i like, first X-Men and now Queen. WHY?

The acting in the movie was good, the music will always be perfect since we are talking about Queen, i just feel like there was something missing, it just didnt feel cohesive to me, i wish this would have been as good as Straight Outta Compton, i enjoyed watching that movie a lot and i knew way less about NWA's music than i do about Queen.

[moronicus_kyla]

I had a good time watching Bohemian Rhapsody tbh but it did feel like it needed a little more depth to elevate it into a very good biopic. The actors were very good with what they were given and showed me they could do so much more with a better script. The few scenes we got of the band members making music and just talking were some of the movie's warmest, and more of those could have emphasized what a family Queen really was to Freddie. I get that it was a Freddie movie but the glimpses of the other members' personalities left me wanting more of them.

The way they showed Freddie's sexuality really lacked nuance and could have been positively portrayed throughout the whole 2nd half instead of crammed in the last few minutes.

[ishumy]

I think the script was lacking and sometimes it felt very unnatural. Like the instances of Freddie being called a P*ki. Am I supposed to believe Freddie, who was pretty much white-passing, was getting called slurs while on stage to remember he was South Asian? And it was so cheesy with the Mary relationship after they break up, too.

[gildinwen]

I mean I could believe that Freddie was called a "paki" quite easily. And that relationship with Mary is pretty much how it played out irl. He left her his entire estate in his will

[gracemym]

I really enjoyed Bohemian Rhapsody, the acting was perfect. It's a very entertaining, moving film. I shared a couple of tears at the end. Music is a lifesaver.

[lawofcosines]

As much as I hated this film, it's definitely going to have a long streak of success like Fox's Circus Musical. Interesting how musicals have fared in the box office recently, from Circus to Mamma Mia to ASIB to this.