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China Box Office: Godzilla vs. Kong Walloped Again by Local Drama Sister Rebecca Davis, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail “Godzilla vs. Kong” was once again muscled out of the top China box office slot by local drama “Sister” thanks to a $13.2 million third weekend cume that was no match for the latter’s $21 million. Its China tally was a touch less than its $13.4 million second weekend sales in North America. Though “Godzilla” is being hailed Stateside as the highest grossing fil...

Box Office: Godzilla vs. Kong Roars to $13.4 Million in Second Weekend Brent Lang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail “Godzilla vs. Kong” stormed to the top of the domestic box office, picking up $13.4 million in its second weekend of release. That brings the monster mashup’s stateside haul to $69.5 million, an impressive gross considering it comes in the midst of a global pandemic. The Legendary and Warner Bros. release’s robust commercial performance has been all the more notable becau...

Godzilla vs. Kong Raises the Question: Is Nonsense the New Normal? (Column) Owen Gleiberman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail By now, a great many people have seen “Godzilla vs. Kong,” and what a lot of them seem to agree on — even many who like it — is that the movie makes almost no sense. That’s nothing new. A number of noteworthy blockbusters have had issues in the how-exactly-does-this-parse? department, like “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” or the “Trans...