Spiral tops North American box office for 2nd weekend
UPI News Service, 05/23/2021
Horror flick Spiral is the No. 1 movie in North America for a second weekend after earning an additional $4.6 million in receipts, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.
ADVERTISEMENT It made $8.7 million last week.
Coming in at No. 2 for the weekend of May 21-23 is Wrath of Man at No. 2 with $2.9 million, followed by Those Who Wish Me Dead at No. 3 with $1.8 million, Raya and the Last Dragon at No. 4 with $1.7 million and Godzilla vs. Kong at No. 5 with $1.4 million.
Rounding out the top tier are Demon Slayer: Mugen Train at No. 6 with $1.3 million, Mortal Kombat at No. 7 with $935,000, Scoob! at No. 8 with $850,000, Dream Horse at No. 9 with $840,000 and Finding You at No. 10 with $670,000.
‘F9’ has the international box office sizzling.
The latest instalment in Universal’s testosterone-fuelled franchise kicked off with a massive $162.4 million (Dh596.5 million) in eight markets, including China, Korea and Hong Kong. Those ticket sales easily mark the best start for a Hollywood blockbuster since COVID-19 hit.
It’s an encouraging start to summer movie season, particularly because revenues weren’t far off from what a ‘Fast’ movie would have generated at the box office in non-pandemic times.
“Moviegoers are eager to come back to theatres when the right movie is out there,” Universal’s president of international distribution Veronika Kwan Vandenberg said. “It’s a great movie for the China market,” she adds. “It has a strong fan base.”
‘Spiral’ stays at #1, pushes ‘Saw’ franchise to a billion bucks By George Costantino and Stephen Iervolino
May 24, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Lionsgate/Brook Palmer
Spiral, the latest entry in the
Saw horror series, earned an estimated $4.5 million in North America and $2.67 million overseas this weekend, pushing the franchise’s total past the $1 billion mark.
Thus far,
Chris Rock and
Samuel L. Jackson has earned $15.8 million in the U.S. and $6.7 million internationally for a global haul of $22.5 million
Coming in second place at the domestic box office this week was
Jason Statham‘s latest team-up with writer-director
Guy Ritchie,
Angelina Jolie‘s thriller
Stefania Di Cio
Family-run Genesis cinema in Whitechapel
- Credit: Stefania Di Cio
A Whitechapel cinema is one of the many indoor entertainment venues which have reopened in England as the lockdown measures ease.
Family-run Genesis cinema in Whitechapel, voted number one in TimeOut’s 25 best cinemas in London, is one of the many venues which will welcome audiences back in east London.
The cinema has been showing independent films for more than 20 years – although the site has been used for entertaining since 1848 - and has reopened its three screens and two studios.
Speaking before the cinema reopened, general manager Matthew Whiteley said: “The past year has been very difficult, but we have managed to find ways of staying active in our community throughout the openings and closures of last year.”