Godzilla vs. Kong brought the box office roaring back, opening with a hefty start by pandemic-era standards. Warner Bros.’ MonsterVerse beat-em-up film opened with a $32.2 million Friday through Sunday gross, the best opening for a film since the last pre-pandemic weekend of March 6th, 2020 when Onward opened to $39.1 million. Add in Thursday and Friday’s numbers and Godzilla vs. Kong had a five-day take of $48.5 million. Those numbers are not far off from the three-day take of $47.8 million that Godzilla: King of the Monsters opened to in May of 2019, and that film didn’t have the mitigating factors of the pandemic and