Buddy's opening weekend is now complete, and the shape of it is the real story: $2.2M Friday, $1.8M Saturday, $1.3M Sunday — a straight decline with no bounce on any of the three days. Sunday's number, down 25.0% from Saturday, closes the frame at $5.4M domestic.
Three days, three drops. That's not a taper — it's a weekend that never found its footing.
Saturday's dip below Friday was already an early warning sign — matinee and date-night traffic normally lifts a wide comedy's second day, not shrinks it. A Sunday that keeps falling on top of that confirms the pattern wasn't a one-off blip: this is a film that opened soft and never generated the word-of-mouth bump that typically arrives by the weekend's close.
No budget figure is confirmed, so there's no recovery math available, but $5.4M through a full opening weekend is a small number for a wide comedy release regardless of production cost. Without a Monday-Tuesday surprise, the theatrical ceiling here looks low.
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