{"id":2318682,"date":"2026-03-08T20:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2318682"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:21:12","slug":"5-reasons-the-bride-was-dead-on-arrival-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/5-reasons-the-bride-was-dead-on-arrival-at-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons \u2018The Bride!\u2019 Was Dead on Arrival at the Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">It\u2019s alive, but it\u2019s not exactly showing signs of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30851137\/\">The Bride!<\/a>,\u201d director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0350454\/\">Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/a>\u2019s punk rock, feminist reinterpretation of \u201cThe Bride of Frankenstein,\u201d flatlined at the box office with $7.3 million domestically and $13.6 million globally in its first weekend of release. That\u2019s a terrible result given that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a> spent $90 million to produce the R-rated film, not including a reported $65 million on marketing expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the 1930s, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30851137\/\">The Bride!<\/a>\u201d follows a very lonely <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7133966\/\">Frankenstein<\/a>\u2019s monster (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000288\/\">Christian Bale<\/a>) and his undead love interest (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2976580\/\">Jessie Buckley<\/a>) as deranged outlaws on the run. Middling reviews, frighteningly bad audience scores and a puzzling release date didn\u2019t help the turnout for \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30851137\/\">The Bride!<\/a>,\u201d which landed wildly behind the studio\u2019s projections of $16 million to $18 million domestically and $40 million globally. This ends a remarkable winning streak for Warner Bros. after a string of nine No. 1 hits, including \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3566834\/\">A Minecraft Movie<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s alive, but it\u2019s not exactly showing signs of life. \u201cThe Bride!,\u201d director Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s punk rock, feminist reinterpretation of \u201cThe Bride of Frankenstein,\u201d flatlined at the box office with $7.3 million domestically and $13.6 million globally in its first weekend of release. That\u2019s a terrible result given that Warner Bros. spent $90 million to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2318683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2318682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5-Reasons-\u2018The-Bride-Was-Dead-on-Arrival-at-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318684,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318682\/revisions\/2318684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2318683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}