Again to Black, a biopic based mostly on the lifetime of acclaimed singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, grossed a disappointing $2.85 million in its first weekend on the home (U.S. and Canada) field workplace, based on boxofficemojo.com.
That put it in sixth place for the weekend, and in third place amongst debuting movies. The weekend chief was IF ($35 million in its first weekend), adopted by Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ($26 million in its second weekend), The Strangers: Chapter 1 ($12 million in its first weekend), The Fall Man ($8.5 million in its third weekend) and Challengers ($2.9 million in its fourth weekend).
This yr’s top-grossing biopic, Bob Marley: One Love, grossed $33.6 million in its first weekend, which was the three-day President’s Day weekend in February. (For a direct, apples-to-apples comparability to the Winehouse movie, the Bob Marley biopic grossed $28.7 million within the Friday to Sunday interval.)
Marisa Abela stars as Winehouse in Again to Black, which was directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and written by Matt Greenhalgh. That very same director/author crew collaborated on Nowhere Boy, a 2009 movie in regards to the early lifetime of John Lennon. (Taylor-Johnson’s greatest hit to this point as a director is Fifty Shades of Gray.)
Winehouse launched simply two albums in her lifetime — Frank (launched in October 2003) and Again to Black (October 2006). The latter album was a world smash, reaching No. 1 on the Official U.Ok. Album Chart and No. 2 on the Billboard 200. It produced the hit “Rehab,” which made the highest 10 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and received Grammys for document and music of the yr.
Winehouse received 5 Grammys in 2008, which enabled her to tie the document on the time for many Grammys received by a feminine artist in a single yr. (That document has since been eclipsed, first by Beyoncé in 2010 after which by Adele in 2012). Winehouse was simply 27 when she died of alcohol poisoning in July 2011. She received a sixth Grammy posthumously in February 2012 for “Physique and Soul,” a collab with Tony Bennett, who was an enormous admirer.
