The final is dethroned. Box Office has a new king

Los Angeles: The box office has a new king and his name is John Wick. The third installment of the hyper-violent franchise Keanu Reeves took first place at the North American box office and ended the three-week reign of "Avengers: Endgame".

On Sunday, the studios say "John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum" brought in about $ 57 million during its opening weekend, which not only exceeded expectations, but 39; is also a franchise success that has almost doubled the opening of the second film, which has doubled the opening of the first movie from 2014.

In other words, the public is growing exponentially for this series on a talented badbadin who never seems to have a break.This time, his price is $ 14 million.

Men accounted for the majority (63 of the weekend's audience) Opening of "John Wick 3"). Overall, the audience has attributed the film a rare A + CinemaScore, which says a lot. According to the survey of the audience PostTrak from Comscore, 70% said that they would recommend "without hesitation" to their friends and 21% said that they will see him again

"This is the best-reviewed film of the moment, this series," said Joe Drake, president of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, in a statement. "We are confident that word-of-mouth will continue to generate strong activity for the film worldwide ".

"John Wick 3" brought $ 35.2 million to 66 territories.

"Avengers: Endgame" slipped to second place on its fourth weekend with $ 29.4 million. In the domestic market, where the film grossed $ 711 million, it is now just behind "Star Wars: The Force Wakes Up" ($ 937 million) and in the world $ 2.6 billion, it still remains behind "Avatar" ($ 2.8 billion).

During his second weekend, the "Pokémon Detective Pikachu" also continued to perform well, finishing third with $ 24.8 million. But with the performing trio of John Wick, the Avengers and Pikachu, there were not many film buffs left for the newcomers who were less conspicuous like "A Dog's Journey" and "The sun is also a star".

"" The market was so dominated by "John Wick," said Paul Dergarabedian, Senior Media Analyst at Comscore. "It's hard to see a movie surpbading this magnitude."

Amblin Entertainment and Reliance Entertainment's "A Dog's Journey" opened in fourth place with $ 8 million The film distributed by Universal is the sequel to the success of 2017 "A Dog's Purpose" But unlike John Wick, the audience for this sequel was less than half that of the first, which was $ 18.2 million. turned out to be an A CinemaScore, which could indicate a long-term playability.

However, the most disappointing is the adaptation for young adult "The sun is also a star" which only reported 2 , $ 6 million Although its budget is modest ($ 9 million) and that it features popular television actors such as "Charles Melton of Riverdale" and "Yara Shahidi of" adults ", the film released by Warner Bros. fails to connect even with the He got a very bad B-CinemaScore. 19659002] We are far from the beginning of The Fault in Our Stars, which was $ 48 million in 2014, and even the last film. based on a novel by Nicola Yoon, "Everything, Everything", which opened for more than $ 11 million in 2017.

"As unpredictable and unstable as young adults are, the performances of films that are to this audience are also unpredictable, "said Dergarabedian.

Limited release version, Joanna Ho The well-known relational drama from gg, "The Souvenir", worked well with $ 85,851 on four screens.

Even with the success of "John Wick", the weekend has been down about 31% and 9% so far. But, Dergarabedian said it was calm before the storm. In the coming weekends, theaters will see many potential hits such as "Rocketman", "Aladdin" and "Godzilla: The King of Monsters".

Estimated ticket sales from Friday to Sunday in American and Canadian cinemas, According to Comscore, the latest international issues published from Friday to Sunday are also included, while the latest national figures will be released Monday.