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In an upset summer box office, Sony's R-rated The Equalizer 2 came way ahead of expectations to beat the star Mamma Mia !: Here We Go Again with an estimated launch of $ 35.8 million in North America.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again brought in about $ 34.4 million. Figures may change when weekend earnings are counted on Monday. Abroad, the suite started at $ 42.4 million, from its first 43 markets, for a total of $ 76.8 million. The UK was leading with $ 13.1 million
The Mamma Mia 2 powered by women is by no means a disappointment in North America and has been open according to expectations. As it turned out, Equalizer 2 beat projections, thanks to an ethnically diverse audience and a keen interest among men. (The rivals show that the film is approaching more than $ 35 million, but Sony is counting on a strong Sunday.) Internationally, it only started in 11 markets, gaining $ 3.3 million
Equalizer 2 is the first suite of Washington. career. The first Equalizer suffered a heavy blow in the fall of 2014 after opening $ 34.1 million in the country. The nascent franchise – both films were directed by Antoine Fuqua – follows the exploits of a former government agent, brought back into action. This time around, the Washington character is determined to take revenge for the death of a friend. Men accounted for about 60% of ticket buyers.
Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Leo Melissa and Bill Pullman also appear in Equalizer 2 which marks the fourth film of Fuqua and Washington after 19459003.] The Equalizer Day Training and The Magnificent Seven .
The Equalizer 2 earned an A ScoreScience, compared to an A- for its predecessor. Mamma Mia 2 received the same CinemaScore as the 2008 film, or an A -.
The domestic opening of Mamma Mia 2 came to 22% of the first Mamma Mia! which was opened at $ 27.7 million in summer 2008, uncorrected for inflation. [19659003] A big curiosity factor is Cher, who, along with Lily James, are among the newcomers to the brand Mamma Mia! . Returning stars were Amanda Seyfried, Julie Walters of Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, Dominic Cooper, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgard. The story goes through time when the character of Streep (Donna) is pregnant.
Mamma Mia 2 is one of the few 2018 summer movies targeting women, which accounted for over 80% of Friday's audience, according to comScore.
In June, Warner Bros. Female spinning Ocean 8 opened at $ 41.6 million on the brink of winning $ 256.7 million worldwide. And Paramount's Book Club with Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, and Candice Bergen, suffered a heavy blow in May after raising nearly $ 70 million in national revenue
. Horror-thriller, Unfriended: Dark Web entered No. 9 with an estimate of $ 3.5 million against a tiny production budget of $ 1 million. The found-footage clip, directed by Stephen Susco ( The Grudge) follows a twenty-something that finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop. He quickly realizes that the former owners of his computer will do everything to recover the laptop.
Among the holdovers, the Transylvania Hotel of Sony is ranked No. 3 nationally with $ 23.2 million for 10- total of $ 91.1 million. Internationally, he won $ 37.7 million from 51 contracts to break the $ 200 million mark and finish Sunday with a total of $ 206.7 million.
Disney / Marvel's Ant-Man and Wasp came in fourth with 16.1 million for a domestic total of $ 164.6 million and a global total of $ 353.5 million after have earned an additional $ 21.6 million.
Disney also took fifth place with Incredibles 2 . Pixar's tentpole earned $ 11.5 million for a whopping $ 557.3 million in total. Internationally, she received $ 36.5 million from 42 territories for a global total of $ 940.1 million, which means she's expected to approach $ 1 billion by the end of her career.
Dwayne Johnson's film Skyscraper continued to wrestle in the United States in its second weekend, falling to No. 6 and $ 11 million gross for Legendary and Universal. However, Johnson's star status has been reflected in large numbers in China, where Skyscraper debuted this weekend at $ 47.7 million for Legendary East. Combined with $ 27.7 million earned in other foreign markets, the peak action-disaster won the international weekend with $ 75 million. The Skyscraper finished Sunday with a global total of $ 179.6 million
Among the new US box office specials are the Lionsgate and Code Black urban drama, Blindspotting . The urban drama of Oakland marks Carlos Lopez Estrada's first feature film, and Daveed Diggs of Hamilton faces Rafael Casal.
Blindspotting which opens in 14 theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago and the Bay Area yielded $ 332,500, an average of $ 23,750 million per screen. The film won one of the best averages of the weekend.
Estrada directed Blindspotting of a script by Rafael Casal and Diggs. The story, located in Oakland, follows two friends for life who are navigating their last days of probation.
The upper average of the weekend belongs to the new documentary Alexander McQueen of Bleecker Street McQueen which opened at $ 96,928 of four
The new offer from Amazon Studios, Generation Wealth, opened at $ 33,602 from four theaters for a screen average of $ 8,401.
Meanwhile, A24 Eighth Grade continued to impress by expanding to a total of 32 locations in its second year outing. The film earned about $ 794,000 for a stellar screen average of $ 24,072
Among other independent holdouts, the Doc [] Three Identical Strangers continued to climb the chart, releasing $ 1.4 million from $ 4.6 million. The film placed # 14, the best ranking of any specialty title behind Sorry to bother you who placed # 10 with $ 2.8 million from 1050 locations for a total of $ 10.2 million. Strangers is the latest documentary to flourish at the box office in the summer after RBG and will not be my neighbor who broke the $ 18 million mark in the country in a major victory for Focus Features. [19659002] This article appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.
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