“Weapons,” a brand new horror movie in regards to the mysterious disappearance of a gaggle of youngsters from the identical college class, opened atop the North American field workplace with $42.5 million in ticket gross sales, trade estimates confirmed Sunday.
“This is an outstanding opening for an original horror film,” analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research mentioned of the Warner Bros. film starring Julia Garner (“Ozark”) and Josh Brolin (“Avengers: Infinity War”).
Debuting in second place was Disney’s “Freakier Friday” starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, the much-anticipated sequel to the 2003 household movie by which body-switching results in amusing hijinks, at $29 million, Exhibitor Relations mentioned.
“This is an excellent opening. The estimated weekend figure is well above average for a comedy follow-up sequel, and it’s also well above the first film’s opening 22 years ago,” Gross mentioned.
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” Disney’s debut of the rebooted Marvel Comics franchise, dropped to 3rd place at $15.5 million. Its total take within the United States and Canada stands at $230.4 million.
Actor-of-the-moment Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Emmy-winner Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn star because the titular group of superheroes, who should save a retro-futuristic world from the evil Galactus.
Universal’s family-friendly animation sequel “The Bad Guys 2,” a few squad of goofy animal criminals truly doing good of their rebranded lives, dropped to fourth, incomes $10.4 million.
Finishing out the highest 5 was Paramount’s reboot of “Naked Gun,” a slapstick comedy starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr, son of the bumbling police lieutenant from the unique Eighties film and associated tv sequence “Police Squad!”
The movie, which co-stars Pamela Anderson, pulled in $8.4 million in its second weekend in theaters.
Rounding out the highest 10 have been:
“Superman” ($7.8 million)
“Jurassic World: Rebirth” ($4.7 million)
“F1: The Movie” ($2.8 million)
“Together” ($2.6 million)
“Sketch” ($2.5 million)
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