#BIRDS OF PREY 2020 RESHOOTS MOVIE#

Robbie is a gifted action comedienne with danger in her veins.

Written, directed, and produced by women (including Robbie), “Birds of Prey” is cohesive and visually entertaining.

#BIRDS OF PREY 2020 RESHOOTS MOVIE#

That movie was critic proof, opening to $134 million, and as the pink-and-blue pigtailed roller-skating Harley Quinn, Robbie became a global movie star.

to Hire Christopher Nolan for ‘Insomnia’Īnd “Birds of Prey” got much better reviews (deservedly) than its predecessor. David Ayer’s PG-13 “Suicide Squad” was a series of violent, percussive action scenes of predictable and often nonsensical mayhem. Steven Soderbergh Details Convincing Warner Bros. Now the film has been hastily renamed “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey,” in hopes that the clearer title, and its improved SEO, will mean a healthier gross.

However, “Birds of Prey,” opened last weekend to $33.3 million, well below box-office expectations of $45 million-$55 million, based on preview testing (88% in the top two boxes for women, 86% people under 30), upbeat fanboy and media reactions, and (clearly inflated) advance tracking. Even Todd Phillips’ risky R-rated origin myth “Joker,” starring Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix as a mentally ill chaos agent, turned into a $1 billion global home run.Īnd then there’s the film formerly known as “ Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” a title that distanced itself from the DC film that introduced Margot Robbie as Quinn, 2016 box-office smash “Suicide Squad” ($746 million worldwide, with its own James Gunn reboot in the works for 2021). Usually, when a studio greenlights a comic-book spin-off, it’s as close to sure-fire as you can get.

Birds of prey 2020 reshoots