After a nearly 20 year gestation to the big screen, Ang Lee’s “Gemini Man,” the PG-13 rated movie starring Will Smith, which also cost $138 million to produce, is set to open in theaters on Friday. The film, according to box-office prognosticators, is projected to make $24 million from 3,600 venues this coming weekend.
Lee and Paramount must surely be biting their nails at the present moment, hoping, no praying, that Gemini Man’s overseas haul, especially in China, will fare much better than these predicted U.S. box-office numbers. The brunt of the film’s wildly extravagant budget seems to have to do with the VFX process Lee used to “de-age” Will Smith’s character.
The film has been a critical failure, currently sitting at 30% on Rotten Tomatoes and 37 on Metacritic.