Kicker: Blade Runner: 2049 continued what has been seen as a disappointing run -- halving last weekend’s earnings with takings of US$15.1 million. - AFP/VNA Photo |
With takings of US$26.5 million according to Exhibitor Relations, it comfortably knocked last week’s leader -- the long-awaited Blade Runner sequel -- into second place.
Starring Jessica Rothe, Universal’s Happy Death Day follows a college student who repeatedly relives the day she was murdered until she discovers who killed her.
Blade Runner: 2049 continued what has been seen as a disappointing run -- halving last weekend’s earnings with takings of US$15.1 million.
The highly anticipated sci-fi reboot features Ryan Gosling as a new Los Angeles Police Department "blade runner" -- charged with killing bioengineered androids known as "replicants." On uncovering a secret which threatens society, he embarks on a search for Harrison Ford’s character, a former blade runner who disappeared 30 years ago.
In at third was STX Entertainment’s The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan as a Việt Nam War special forces operator-turned-London businessman, who seeks revenge after his daughter is killed in a terrorist attack. Based on the 1992 novel The Chinaman by Stephen Leather, the action thriller took a modest $12.8 million.
Meanwhile, freaky horror sensation It -- starring Bill Skarsgard as a creepy clown -- slipped into fourth in its sixth week in theaters.
With takings dropping by over a third from last weekend to $6 million, the popularity of the box office smash based on a cult Stephen King novel – total earnings $314.9 million -- seems to be gradually easing.
After spending its first weekend in second place, Fox’s The Mountain Between Us fell to fifth, taking $5.6 million.
Starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, The Mountain Between Us tells the story of a surgeon (Elba) and a journalist (Winslet), who fall in love as they fight to survive following a plane crash on a snowy Utah mountain range.
Rounding out the top 10 were:
American Made ($5.4 million)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle ($5.3 million)
The Lego Ninjago Movie ($4.3 million)
My Little Pony: The Movie ($4 million)
Victoria and Abdul ($3.1 million).
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