Back to blacka biopic based on the life of famed singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, took in a disappointing $2.85 million in its opening weekend at the domestic box office (US and Canada), according to boxofficemojo.com.
This placed it in sixth place for the weekend and third among debut films. The leader of the weekend was IF ($35 million in its first weekend), followed by Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ($26 million second weekend) The Strangers: Chapter 1 ($12 million first weekend) The type of autumn ($8.5 million in its third weekend) and challengers ($2.9 million in fourth weekend).
This year's highest-grossing biopic, Bob Marley: One Love, earned $33.6 million in its opening weekend, which was the three-day President's Day weekend in February. (For a direct apples-to-apples comparison with the Winehouse film, the Bob Marley biopic grossed $28.7 million in the Friday-Sunday period.)
Marisa Abela stars as Winehouse Back to black, which was directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and written by Matt Greenhalgh. The same director/writer team worked together Nowhere boy, a 2009 film about the early life of John Lennon. (Taylor-Johnson's biggest success to date as a director is Fifty Shades of Gray.)
Winehouse only released two albums in her lifetime — Sincere (released October 2003) and Back to black (October 2006). The latter album was a global smash, reaching No. 1 on the UK Official Albums Chart and No. 2 on the Billboard 200. It produced the hit “Rehab,” which entered the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Grammys for record and song of the year.
Winehouse won five Grammys in 2008, which allowed her to tie the record at the time for the most Grammys won by a female artist in one year. (This record has since been eclipsed, first by Beyoncé in 2010 and then by Adele in 2012). Winehouse was just 27 when she died of alcohol poisoning in July 2011. She won a sixth Grammy posthumously in February 2012 for “Body and Soul,” a collaboration with Tony Bennett, who was a big fan.
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