There might be a box office surprise this weekend in Paramount’s horror movie ‘Smile’
the Nic Stoller-directed Billy Eichner starring and co-scripted romantic comedy from Universal. Eichner has publicizedextensively and as the first LGBTQ studio comedy, and it is from a wide release perspective. We can’t forget about the feature adaptation of Harvey Feinstein’swhich also starred the playwright ; that gay dramedy being distributed by New Line back in 1988, but was a limited release.
The 1978 UA release French-language release broke through at the box office grossing over $20M, a hit back in its day. MGM would remake that movie into in 1996 with Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and Gene Hackman; that movie being an enormous hit at $124M domestic, $185.2M WW.will come from the big cities, we’re told, at 3,300 theaters. Unfortunately, the studio is only expecting areceived rave reviews from critics at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes following its TIFF world premiere.