International & # 39; Box Office, but the suites continue to collapse



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The trend of dropping out has continued at the box office this weekend, while the series "Men In Black: International" of Sony and Warner Bros. "Shaft" should currently open below the tracker's expectations.

"MIB: International" will take first place this weekend, but after generating $ 10.4 million Friday, spread over 4,224 venues, the benefits of Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson should generate a week-end end of $ 26 million, behind the $ 30 million projection by Sony and the $ 35 to $ 40 million projected by analysts. In comparison, Will Smith's and Tommy Lee Jones's MIB films both opened about twice as much, while the 2012 movie "Men In Black 3" opened for a $ 54.5 million out of three days on Memorial Day weekend.

The good news for Sony is that the $ 110 million film budget is not entirely the project's expense since the studio co-financed the film with Tencent and Hemisphere. Nevertheless, these spillovers will require significant results abroad to stay out of the red, and this might not happen with "Toy Story 4" and "Spider-Man: Away from Home" on the horizon. Word of mouth does not help either, with critics attributing 24% to rotten tomatoes, while the audience is only slightly positive with a B on CinemaScore and a 3/5 on Postrak.

Other weak results this weekend include the release of Warner Bros. & # 39; & # 39; Shaft, which was expected to start between $ 18 and $ 20 million trackers, but now plans a $ 7.3 million opening on 2,952 screens and a finish in the top 5 this weekend. As "MIB: International", "Shaft" was co-financed, Netflix sharing the $ 30 million film budget in exchange for streaming distribution rights abroad.

While the critics were generally negative with a score of 34%, the opening night audience, mostly African-American, gave the movie a solid A on CinemaScore, which could lead to decent word-of-mouth black moviegoers. Between its relatively low cost and its possible cult, "Shaft" could at least break even.

Under "MIB: International", Universal / Illumination's "The Secret Life of Pets 2" is close to $ 23 million on the second weekend, a 51% drop from its 46th opening, $ 6 million. "Aladdin" Disney continues to perform better than expected thanks to an underperforming competition, reaching $ 17.6 million during its fourth weekend while it exceeds $ 250 million national.

In fourth place, Dark / Disney, Fox / Disney, which after posting the opening weekend the lowest in the history of the franchise "X-Men", is expected to suffer a fall from 74% during his second weekend. According to industry estimates, the film is currently fourth with a second weekend of $ 8.6 million, but it could lose fourth place to Paramount's Rocketman, which is just behind fifth, with an estimate of $ 8.5 million the third weekend.

The movie "Late Night" by Amazon Studios / 30WEST is further down the ninth row. It earned $ 4.45 million on 2,218 screens after opening in Los Angeles and New York last weekend. The film has a B + on CinemaScore and 80% of the review on Rotten Tomatoes.

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