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Update:<\/b> “Blended” garnered $4.4 million at the box office Friday. Less than even the $4.6 million earned by “That’s My Boy,” it is the worst opening day total for a Sandler film since his 2007 drama “Reign Over Me” drew $2.5 million. It is the worst opening for one of his live action comedies since “Bulletproof” launched in 1996.<\/em>
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\nMoviegoers were evidently not clamoring for another opportunity to see the Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore pairing. Multiple sources report that their new film “Blended” is in the process of flopping at the box office.<\/p>\n

In its Friday afternoon report, THR said that “Blended” was not expected to even reach $18 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend. Nikki Finke was even less optimistic in a late-night report, noting that the film was tracking to earn just $3.5 million Friday as part of a $13 million Memorial Day haul.<\/p>\n

Since officially catapulting into box office superstardom with 1998’s sleeper “The Wedding Singer” ($18.9 million) and smash “The Waterboy” ($39.4 million), Sandler has only twice failed to open one of his signature live action comedies to more than $25 million in weekend receipts.<\/p>\n

Those failures came via “Little Nicky,” which earned $16.1 million in 2000, and “That’s My Boy,” which garnered just $13.5 million in 2012.<\/p>\n

And as disappointing as those hauls were, they came in conjunction with traditional, three-day weekends. “Blended” might not even best the $13.5 million “That’s My Boy” total in four days.<\/p>\n

If the grim “Blended” forecast holds, it will mark the worst wide opening for one of Sandler’s true live action comedies since “Bulletproof” earned $6.0 million in 1996.<\/p>\n

Sandler first collaborated with Barrymore in 1998’s “The Wedding Singer,” which was at the time his most successful release. It earned $18.9 million in its opening weekend en route to a cumulative total of $80.2 million. 1996’s “Happy Gilmore,” which had previously been his best-grossing film, earned just $8.5 million in its opener before closing with a total of $38.8 million.<\/p>\n

They then reconnected on 2004’s “50 First Dates.” The film, which earned a cumulative total of $120.9 million, began its run with $39.9 million in opening weekend receipts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36,1050],"tags":[15,2365],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\nAdam Sandler's "Blended" Bombs at the Box Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: "Blended" garnered $4.4 million at the box office Friday. 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