This DC Comics feature film, where Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays a superpowered former slave just out of a lengthy prison sentence, grossed $18.5 millionreported the specialized firm Exhibitor Relations.
Internationally, the spin-off film of “Shazam!” (2019) has so far grossed a whopping $182 million. But its box office dominance is not expected to survive the next release of Black Panther: Wakanda Foreversequel to Black Pantherthe first film in the Marvel universe with a black superhero.
In second place this weekend is the animated film One Piece Film: Redbased on the universe of the popular homonymous manga, which accumulated 9.5 million dollars.
the romantic comedy Ticket to Paradisein which Julia Roberts and George Clooney play a former couple who put aside their differences and travel to Bali to try to prevent their daughter’s marriage, considered hasty, comes in third place with $8.5 million in revenue.
Fourth at the box office is the psychological horror film Smilewith four million, bringing its total North American gross to nearly $100 million.
And in fifth place comes Prey for the Devilwith 3.9 million dollars, another horror film where Jacqueline Byers plays an exorcist nun who fights against demonic forces.
Rounding out the top ten:
6. “Lilo, my friend the crocodile” ($3.4 million)
7. “The Spirits of the Island” ($2 million)
8. “Till – The Crime That Changed Everything” ($1.9 million)
9. “Halloween: The Final Night” ($1.4 million)
10 “Terrifier 2” ($1.2 million)