The Crow 2024’s Debut Audience Score RT Triples Critic Score (& Breaks Franchise Trend)

Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Crow (2024)!

After starting with some bad reviews from critics, Bill Skarsgård The Crow has landed a much better audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie serves as a reimagining of James O’Barr’s iconic graphic novel of the same name, revolving around a man named Eric who, along with his girlfriend, is murdered by a crime lord, but brought back to life with supernatural powers to Hunt down those responsible. Also starring FKA Twigs and Danny Huson, Skarsgård’s The Crow Got off to a rough start with critics, but a modest start at the box office, aiming for an opening weekend of $6-9 million.

With the movie now in theaters, Rotten tomatoes Has calculated audience reviews for The Crow And landed a debut score. With over 100 verified reviews, The 2024 remake has a 64% audience approval rating on the review aggregate At the time of writing, tripling the critical score from just 21%. It’s also the franchise’s second-only recent audience score, behind the original’s 90%.

How does the Crows of 2024 compare to the rest of the franchise?

The overall positive audience score of the movie is a good sign for its box office.

Although the debut score is likely to fluctuate as more reviews come in, The CrowAudience score is a generally positive sign For the ongoing reception of the reimagining. Up to this point, Brandon Lee’s cult classic original is the only movie in the franchise to maintain fresh ratings from both critics and audiences, with subsequent installments being panned by critics and receiving mixed reviews from audiences. See how 2024s The Crow Compares to the rest of the franchise on Rotten Tomatoes in the chart below:

Granted The Crow has had a long development cycle, with everyone from Bradley Cooper to Jason Momoa set to play the undead vigilante at various points, it may not come as much of a surprise that the movie Is performing so poorly with critics. The writing seemed to be further on the wall when Reviews for the reimagining are embargoed until the Thursday night of the movie’s releaseA decision studios typically reserve for films they don’t have confidence in. Lionsgate took a similar approach with their other recent release, BorderlandsWhich similarly took a lashing of critics.

Unlike Eli Roth Borderlandsbut, The Crow‘s debut audience score on Rotten Tomatoes being fresh marks a promising sign for its box office chances. Positive word of mouth from viewers is just as powerful as strong reviews from criticsAnd given Lionsgate only spent $10 million to acquire the film, and it has a $50 million production budget, it won’t take nearly that much money to break even for the studio. Additionally, with no major releases in the coming weeks until Beetlejuice Beetlejuice On September 6, Skarsgård The Crow May very well remain firmly on box office charts and become a sleeper hit.

Could Bill Skarsgård have a new franchise on his hands?

While he starred in a variety of original titles throughout his career, The Crow Keep going An interesting trend of Skarsgård bringing his acting talents to a range of franchises. His most famous role remains that of Pennywise the Clown in the it Duology, although Skarsgård has also held leading and supporting roles in the likes of Deadpool 2 And John Wick: Chapter 4among others. Check out the franchises Skarsgård has been involved with so far in the charts below:

Although plans for an Atomic Blonde 2 Remaining in an unclear state of development after Netflix acquired the rights to it, he is still steadily building a slate of more action-oriented fare, including fellow release 2024 Boy kills worldwhose director Moritz Mohr has also expressed interest in a sequel. The question now becomes whether the positive audience is interested in The Crow Could give Skarsgård a new franchise opportunity. In the time since this article was first written, the movie’s audience RT score has increased to 66% with over 250 verified reviews, indicating that audiences are generally enjoying the reimagining.

Finally, the chances of a sequel to The Crow Will come down to how the movie performs at the box office. Despite initial projections of $6-9 million, the movie now only closed out its opening weekend with $4.6 million and the No. 8 spot, indicating a slow start to its financial run. Moreover, granted The CrowThe end of Eric’s story largely, except for a very brief tease of him retaining his powers in Purgatory, the potential return of the franchise may be almost dead. Even still, with Skarsgård returning for the IT: Welcome to Derry prequel show, he at least has other franchise opportunities in his future.

Source: Rotten tomatoes