Bob Marley: One Love, the music biopic from Paramount, managed to generate revenue at the worldwide box office even though it faced competition from Dune: Part Two and, more recently, Kung Fu Panda 4. After over a month of release in cinemas, the movie is still consistently ranked in the top five at the US box office, having brought in close to $90 million to date. Once its run ends, One Love is all but sure to reach the coveted $100 million threshold.
It remains to be seen if it can cross the $200 million mark internationally. One Love has made a total of $160 million worldwide to date, with $71 million coming from international markets. One Love, which is handled by Reinaldo Marcus Green—who also directed the Oscar-winning movie King Richard—stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as the legendary reggae artist Bob Marley. Ben-Adir was effectively a backup dancer for Ryan Gosling during his performance of “I’m Just Ken” at the recent Oscars, which underscores how recent the film’s popularity has been.
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Even while the film itself hasn’t exactly received positive reviews, everyone seems to agree on the attraction of Ben-Adir’s lead performance. On the aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, One Love presently has a 42% “rotten” rating. Collider’s Nate Richard writes that Ben-Adir and his co-star Lashana Lynch, who plays Rita Marley, are “kept afloat” in this “flat and uninspired” biopic. However, the movie’s reaction from viewers has been somewhat more favorable; opening day attendees gave it an A CinemaScore and a 92% audience approval rating on RT. Marley: One Love’ I Video
One Love, which was made on an alleged $70 million budget, is centered around a significant time in Marley’s life and demonstrates the continued popularity of the music biopic genre. Recent blockbusters include the Elton John biography Rocketman, which brought in about $200 million worldwide, and the Oscar-winning film Elvis, directed by Baz Luhrmann, which brought in over $280 million worldwide.
Additionally, a few years before that, the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody set records with a global box office take of almost $900 million. The Amy Winehouse movie Back to Black, which has its domestic premiere in May, will thereafter be shown to the public. The U.K. ($17.4 million), France ($12.7 million), Germany ($4.2 million), Australia ($4 million), and Brazil (also $4 million) are One Love’s largest overseas markets, highlighting Marley’s enduring popularity on a worldwide scale. One Love, which is now showing in cinemas, also stars Michael Gandofini, Tosin Cole, and James Norton.
