Reception
Hannibal Rising received a generally negative critical reception, and did not fare as well as the previous films in the series at the box office. It currently has a rating of 15% ("Rotten") on the Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes, with a 7% Cream of the Crop rating. It also received a Metascore of 35 ("Generally negative reviews") on Metacritic.
The film opened at #2 in the United States with $13.4 million, less than half of the $33.7 million opening of Norbit which was released during the same week as Hannibal Rising. In its second week of release, Hannibal Rising dropped to #7 at the U.S. box office, making $5.5 million, a 59% drop from the previous week. It dropped out of the top 10 U.S. grossing films in its third week of release at #13 with $1,706,165 in revenue, a 69% drop from the previous week. After a theatrical release of 91 days, the final total domestic gross of the film was $27,669,725, which is less than the opening weekend gross of both Hannibal and Red Dragon ($58,003,121 and $36,540,945, respectively).
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