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    What the 'Ticket to Paradise' box office opening says about the state of the rom-com

    If you want to breathe new life into the romantic comedy genre, it helps to breathe some old life into it. At least that appears to be the lesson from the Julia Roberts-George Clooney "Ticket to Paradise," which opened to $16.3 million at the domestic box office this weekend, propelled to a second-place finish behind the Dwayne Johnson superhero film "Black Adam" by the combined star power of ...
    by Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times Oct 24, 2022 4 minutes
    Julia Roberts, left, and George Clooney in "Ticket To Paradise."

    If you want to breathe new life into the romantic comedy genre, it helps to breathe some old life into it.

    At least that appears to be the lesson from the Julia Roberts-George Clooney "Ticket to Paradise," which opened to $16.3 million at the domestic box office this weekend, propelled to a second-place finish behind the Dwayne Johnson superhero film "Black Adam" by the combined star power of seasoned rom-com vets. Despite widespread predictions of the impending extinction of the genre on the big screen, the stronger-than-expected result showed that, for romantic comedy fans, paradise may not be lost quite yet.

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