The horror film debut of musician and actor The Weeknd has emerged to disappointing returns, taking solely $3.3million (£2.4m) in its opening, uh, weeknd within the States.
Four-time Grammy Award-winning musician, producer and actor The Weeknd – real name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye – stars as a fictionalised model of himself within the psychological thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow.
Directed by Trey Edward Shults, it follows the star as he teeters on the point of a psychological breakdown, spurred on by his interactions with a mysterious fan, performed by Jenna Ortega.
The movie, which was co-written by The Weeknd and likewise stars Barry Keoghan, serves as a companion piece to his 2025 album of the identical identify.
But whereas the album debuted to sturdy phrase of mouth and even higher gross sales, topping the charts in 16 international locations, the movie hasn’t had the identical type of traction.
Released within the United States on May 16, it did so to poor evaluations and disappointing ticket gross sales, ending in sixth place, behind the Final Destination sequel, Sinners and A Minecraft Movie.
Since its launch, the movie has racked up a paltry 13% on the evaluate aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with The Daily Beast’s Nick Schager describing it as an ‘ego-stroke of monumental hubris that instantly assumes pole position in the race for year’s worst film.’
Ouch.
Meanwhile, Inverse described it as ‘simply a slog,’ whereas SlashFilm known as it ‘just awful.’
Audiences who had seen the movie took to X to share their ideas, with many describing it as a ‘vanity project’ and a waste of the skills of all concerned.
‘hurry up tomorrow movie was so egregiously bad that at one point all 6 people in the theater just started laughing at how stupid it was,’ stated 444ybwmoi.
‘Weeknd vanity project wastes the talent in front of, and behind, the camera,’ wrote Twit4java.
‘anyway so i watched Hurry Up Tomorrow and what kind of mess what that,’ stated Rydxr.
However, with a 70% Popcornmeter score from followers on Rotten Tomatoes, opinion is way from unified.
‘Unpopular opinion, Abel acting as The Weeknd is good and not the problem with Hurry Up Tomorrow,’ stated JoeDorvil.
‘And I hope Abel Tesfaye knows how I’m completely happy with him for making his means as much as the highest for making an excellent efficiency on Hurry Up Tomorrow alongside with Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan,’ agreed XOOFLIFE.
‘hurry up tomorrow was a love letter for the FANS. if you’re not XO, you’re merely not going to get it. abel poured his coronary heart and soul into this film and his ardour for this venture is so evident. i completely loved it. should you didn’t, you didn’t perceive. your loss,’ stated whydtry.
The movie was impressed by a 2022 incident by which he took to the stage in entrance of 70,000 movie – only to learn that he’d lost his voice.
‘I saw my doctor, and he said, ‘There’s nothing flawed with you — your [vocal cords] are infected, however nothing out of the extraordinary,’ he advised Variety of his sudden silence.
‘And that’s once we got here to the belief that it was all up right here.
‘My body, and specifically my voice, had never failed me before. I’d been on stage with a excessive fever, utterly sick; I’d been on stage in the course of a breakup or a demise within the household; and I’d misplaced my voice throughout a efficiency. But I used to be all the time capable of battle via it… I used to be defeated on the world stage with everybody watching,’ the musician revealed.
Inspired by this existential disaster, he went on to create Hurry Up Tomorrow, in an try to creatively purge his demons, laying them out for all to see… for higher and worse.
Hurry Up Tomorrow is out in UK cinemas now.
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