Director Olivia Wilde’s psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling was the subject of extensive promotion in the run-up to its release but ultimately earned mixed reviews and became mired in controversy. Regardless, the picture has raked in $78.2 million throughout the world. Don’t Worry Darling has been playing in 66 abroad nations totalling 3,865 screens, yet it only made $3 million this past weekend. The film’s holdover markets saw a 45 per cent drop in revenue. Don’t Worry Darling’s international gross is now $35.8 million, thanks to an increase of $3 million.
It fared better in the film’s core American market, which had a good opening weekend in late September and brought in $19.3 million. Don’t Worry Darling has already made $78.2 million worldwide after raking in $42.4 million in the United States. As a result of losing its number-one slot to the horror surprise smash Smile in its second week, the film’s overall gross dropped by 62%. With this big reduction and the subsequent 45% loss in the international market, it suggests that people continue to avoid the picture. Don’t Worry Darling, at its core, appears to be a simple way to achieve success.
The film, which also features Gemma Chan, Chris Pine, and Olivia Wilde, follows the lives of a young couple, Jack and Alice (Styles and Pugh), who live in the seemingly idyllic community of Victory, an “experimental company town.” However, as the film progresses, Alice realises that not everything in her nuclear home is as it seems, and she “can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.” A B- from critics who said the film was “a surface-level matinée thriller with a few follow-up has” that “doesn’t hurt as it should in the end” suggests that moviegoers aren’t responding positively to it.
There’s no need to worry, darling; Don’t Worry Darling has just hit cinemas.