The Lost City Takes Opens With $31 Million at the Box Office
The Lost City will take the top spot at the box office away from The Batman this weekend. The Lost City, an action/adventure film starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe, will earn $31 million in its first weekend at the box office, including $2.5 million in preview showings. While it did not maintain its early 100% on Rotten Tomatoes has since fallen a bit, it’s still doing well with critics. The story follows Bullock as a reclusive author who is kidnapped and sent on an adventure like the ones she writes into her books.
The Batmans slips into second place, earning $18.7 million in its fourth weekend. The Batman already crossed $300 million at the domestic box office, and critics have and fans have heaped praise on Matt Reeves’ take on the DC Comics hero.
“As a reboot, The Batman is a very good re-introduction of the Batman movie franchise, but one that feels like a victim of circumstance,” ComicBook.com’s Kofi Outlaw writes in his 4-ouf-of-5 review of the film. “It seems like there was originally a clear deeper thematic point in mind – until the entire world took a chaotic downward spiral. The most we now get from The Batman is a final message of, ‘Hey, things are really messed up, but, uh, let’s try to help one another, okay?’ Given current circumstances around the world (at the time of writing this), maybe that’s the only message a superhero movie can manage right now.”
RRR is having one of the best North American openings ever for a Telugu-language Indian movie, heading towards an estimated $11.8 million. The Michelle Yeoh-led A24 release Everything Everywhere All at Once is also seeing a strong opening, and is expected to earn more than $550,000 in its first three days.
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