Blade Runner 2049 Is a Good Movie. Why Wasn't It a Box Office Hit?

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For the second weekend in a row, Blade Runner 2049 underperformed at the box office.

While it was the top movie in its opening frame of Oct. 6-8, it took in only about $33 million, well under the $40-50 million that had been forecast. This weekend, it slipped to the No. 2 slot, dropping by over half to bring in just over $15 million, and coming in behind Happy Death Day, a horror movie about a college girl who dies and comes back to the same day repeatedly to try and solve her own murder.

While

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