Glass leads box office in opening weekend
M. Night Shyamalan scored his fifth No.1movie as the director’s Glass dominated the U.S. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend at the box office with $40.6 million in ticket sales. Universal Pictures predicted Glass will make about $47 million over the weekend. Poor reviews took some of the momentum away from Glass, Shyamalan’s final entry in a trilogy begun with 2000’s Unbreakable and followed up with 2017’s Split. Yet the result still proved the renewed draw of Shyamalan, the Sixth Sense filmmaker synonymous with supernatural thrillers and unpredictable plot twists.
Last week’s top film, Kevin Hart’s The Upside, held especially well in its second weekend, sliding only 23 per cent with $15.7 million. But the weekend’s biggest surprise was the Japanese anime film Dragon Ball Super: Broly, which earned an estimated $8.7 million on the weekend from just 1,250 North American theatres. The Funimation Films release, an animated martial arts fantasy, is the 20th film in the Dragon Ball franchise.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Comscore: 1. Glass, $40.6 million 2. The Upside, $15.7 million 3. Aquaman, $10.3 million 4. Dragon Ball Super: Broly, $8.7 million
5. Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse, $7.3 million
6. A Dog’s Way Home, $7.1 million 7. Escape Room, $5.3 million 8. Mary Poppins, $5.2 million 9. Bumblebee, $4.7 million 10. On the Basis of Sex, $4 million.