The box office is continuing to try and rebound against the pandemic, and this week saw Jason Statham’s
Wrath of Man lead the way. The Guy Ritchie-directed action flick took the #1 spot this weekend with $8.1 million. That’s a fairly good start for a mid-budget action thriller, and in fact is not far off from what Ritchie’s pre-pandemic film
The Gentlemen opened with ($10.7 million) in January of 2020. It also tops the last action film of this caliber that Statham toplined in 2016’s
The Mechanic: Resurrection which grossed $7.5 million in its first weekend.
Of course, like any film during the pandemic there are a ton of asterisks to be mentioned.
Jason Statham s Wrath of Man Leads Box Office as Summer Movie Season Has a Slow Start
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Meanwhile, anime hit Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train falls to No. 2 after pulling in additional $3 million, bringing its current total domestic gross to $39 million. May 10, 2021
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Wrath of Man arrives atop the North America box office chart as the summer movie season has officially kicked off. The heist thriller starring
Jason Statham leads North American box office after bringing its current total domestic gross to $8.1 million in its debut.
Meanwhile, anime hit
Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train falls to No. 2 after pulling in additional $3 million. The movie has grossed $39 million in the U.S. and more than $435 million worldwide.
Korea Box Office: The Croods Gets Boost From Children s Day Public Holiday
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Newly released “The Croods: A New Age” jostled with two previously-released titles to form a triumvirate at the top of the South Korean box office over the weekend of May 7-9, 2021.
But after a sprightly Wednesday, which was a national holiday, the weekend numbers were weak. Aggregate takings between Friday and Sunday were a lowly $2.57 million.
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Box office charts in Korea are typically ranked in order of ticket sales. Data from the Korean Film Council’s Kobis tracking service showed “The Croods: A New Age” as the weekend winner, narrowly ahead of “Waiting for Rain” and “The Courier.”
During COVID, drive-in theaters have their day
The Milford Drive-In theatre will be open this weekend with movies and will feature a Bon Jovi concert presentation on May 22. GEOFF FORESTER photos and illustration / Monitor staff
The Milford Drive-In sign off of Route 101A.
Published: 5/7/2021 2:27:57 PM
With movie theaters closed across the country, Bob Scharmette and his family want people to know the Milford Drive-In is open for business with plenty of space for customers to spread out.
Indoor theaters have had an advantage over drive-ins for years because they can show movies any time of the day, year-round, and people still show up when it rains. But COVID drove them to close shop and go dark, while drive ins have remained open, with family members arriving in their own cars and watching a show, safely, outside.
By Dario
May 5, 2021
Dario & Eric give watched the new Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train, the highest grossing anime film of all time, and gave their SPOILER FREE thoughts immediately after walker out of the film.