'Bad Boys' Nabs Big ($106M) Box Office, 'IF' and 'Fall Guy' Show Off Long Legs

Will Smith's star power, Martin Lawrence's under-the-radar popularity and this summer is performing like a pretty normal (sequels > prequels and originals) season.

The weekend box office wrap-up for June 9, 2024

• Bad Boys Ride or Die affirmed Will Smith’s popularity and offered the difference between a sequel audiences want to see and a prequel they don’t.

• Sony is having a subtly, under-the-radar, very strong summer movie season.

• The Watchers bombed, so now it’s up to Trap to save the Shyamalan family name.

• Why the punditry around The Fall Guy and IF got it backward…

• Why the Furiosa discourse has driven me, well, mad…!

• Why, six weeks in, the summer movie season is the same as it ever was.