But when you’re dealing with a $48 million action flick that opened with just $8.6 million on opening weekend, the problem isn’t word-of-mouth or gender-specific stereotypes but rather pre-debut interest. For the record, an $8.6 million debut means that both men and women failed to show up this weekend, and (especially with a budget of under $50 million) the success or failure of Charlie’s Angels didn’t remotely depend on convincing dudes to show up. Sex and the City: The Movie, Ocean’s 8, Twilight, Mamma Mia! and Fifty Shades of Grey are proof of that. So, what went wrong?
it’s a Charlie’s Angels movie,” the mixed reviews (60% and 5.75/10 on Rotten Tomatoes) wouldn’t have been a deal breaker. But in 2019, when folks don’t go to the movies just to go to the movies, the “meh” reviews were a problem. They signified that A) the film was okay at best, B) it was indeed a smaller-scale and less blockbuster-y action movie and C) it had little to offer for folks not already interested in another Charlie’s Angels movie. And in 2019, when audiences can just rent or stream the various TV versions of Charlie’s Angels as well as the two previous McG movies, both of which are currently on Netflix, at the touch of a button, this new version becomes distinctly inessential.
As studios are so often prone to do, the television series became repackaged, and it emerged as a "Charlie’s Angels" movie in 2000, starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu in the lead roles. The film debuted with a $40 million box office.
In 2003, Diaz, Barrymore, and Liu teamed up for a sequel, "Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle," which took in almost $38 million in its first weekend. Left-wing propagandists had not yet infiltrated entertainment content to the degree that would ultimately come to fruition.
So here we are 16 years after the "Charlie’s Angels" sequel. A budget of $93 million Charlie's Angels grossed $125.3 million in North America and $148.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $264.1 million, making it the 12th highest-grossing film of 2000
