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Los Angeles — Very close box office revenue, "Elvis and" Top Gun: Maverick "ranked # 1 in North America, with each movie bringing $ 30.5 .. One million on weekends.
"Elvis" and "Top Gun: Maverick" were involved in a close battle throughout the weekend as King of Rock'n Roll took first place and fell to second place on Friday. I did. Saturday. Final results will be aggregated on Monday.
No matter which movie comes up, it's a powerful result for both. For Elvis, the $ 30 million debut is impressive for an older audience movie. For Maverick, it's almost unprecedented for a movie to generate $ 30 million on the fifth weekend of its release.
Overall, the box office revenue is a reassuring weekend, with five movies doing quite well. Four – "Elvis" and fellow rookie Universal Blumhouse thriller "Black Phone", and holdovers "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Jurassic World Dominion" – earned over $ 20 million, and the fifth was Disney's. The Pixar movie "Lightyear," is approaching for $ 17 million.
Moreover, the sales of these tickets are not far from the pre-COVID forecasts. These healthy box office revenues were reportedly as the audience began to feel safer than going to a local cinema. According to a National Research Group survey, 88% of movie fans go to movies "very or somewhat comfortably", a record high. About a year ago, that percentage was close to 59%.
Baz Luhrmann oversaw "Elvis," a kaleidoscopic take of 20th-century icons. Austin Butler will star as the king of rock and roll in "Elvis," which records the surge in performer's fame through the eyes of his manager, Colonel Tom Parker (played by Tom Hanks). The audience dug up the movie and awarded it the "A-" CinemaScore.
David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research, called "Elvis" a "dangerous proposal."
"The music is old, the characters aren't directly familiar, and the leading actors aren't proven on the big screen, but critics and the audience are reacting," Gross said. "This is a Baz Luhrmann show with spectacular music, dance and sex appeal. It's a hit."
The sequel to the nostalgia of "Top Gun" in 1986 is a huge boon from stellar reviews. As a result, there is a slight dip every week. Now, on the fifth weekend of the release, Maverick added $ 30.5 million from 3,948 venues between Friday and Sunday, pushing the national total to $ 521 million. It was already the most profitable movie of the year in the United States and Canada, but since this weekend it has become the most profitable movie to date with worldwide box office revenue of $ 1.06 billion. In particular, this was the first movie of the year, surpassing $ 1 billion second in the COVID era (following Sony's $ 1.9 billion "Spider-Man: Noway Home").
After spending a two-week weekend in first place, Jurassic World Dominion has risen to third place for $ 26.4 million from 4,233 locations in North America. With these ticket sales, domestic box office revenues have exceeded $ 300 million in dinosaur-centric big events. Dominion has international box office revenue of $ 443.8 million, reaching $ 746.6 million worldwide and will soon exceed $ 750 million.
The Black Phone opened in 4th place at $ 23.3 million from 3,150 North American cinemas. Overseas, the film raised $ 13.4 million from 45 regions and generated $ 35.8 million in worldwide revenue.
With horror movies costing only $ 18 million, The Black Phone paves the way for profitability. Scott Derrickson directed "The Black Phone," starring Ethan Hawke as a serial killer in a mask that kidnaps and afflicts a teenage boy. Movie fans and critics reacted enthusiastically, giving the movie 84% of the "B +" CinemaScore and Lotten Tomatoes.
Franchise Entertainment Research Gross said: "The Black Phone is the kind of movie that Streamer couldn't make. It's high-profile, exciting, profitable and cheap on its own terms."
5th place Disney's "Lightyear" earned $ 17.7 million from 4,255 venues, down 65% from its opening. Set in the world of Pixar's "Toy Story," spin-off stories have so far generated $ 88 million in North America. Overseas, "Light Year" has raised $ 19.3 million from 44 markets, with an international aggregate of $ 63.6 million and a global total of $ 152.4 million.
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