At present, the top three best opening weekends of all time in Canada are Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with almost $17.1 million, followed by Marvel’s The Avengers with $15.6 million, and Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron $13.8 million in the third place. Since Ride Along 2 was also able to keep its budget low, it should still be profitable despite diminishing returns. The film arrived in fourth place for $16 million.
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Alejandro G. Inarritu’s The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, placed # 2 with an estimated 4-day gross of $35-M from 3,559 locations for a domestic box office of $93.2-M. After one month, the award contender’s overall total stands at $87.6 million. Misfiring indie ‘toon Norm Of The North (released by Lionsgate, but not from one of the usual big animation companies) could only muster a sixth place launch and $6.6 million, despite being the one new animated offering in the market at the moment. After reading this book, you’ll be able to put names to faces, places, species and a multitude of inanimate objects in future viewings of Star Wars The Force Awakens, all of which serve to expand on the galaxy far, far way that we have come to know and love. But the consecutive-weeks-at-the-top record Titanic set nearly two decades ago is safe for now.
13 Hours, recounts the US military operatives who defended the US Embassy compound in Benghazi from a terrorist attack that left four dead, including US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
“Rey is a character that is important in this universe, not just in the context of The Force Awakens, but in the entire galaxy”.
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The top five was rounded out by boxing drama “Creed” with $14.2 million and China’s “Royal Treasure” with $11.5 million. The comedy-drama picked up several Oscar nominations and that bolstered it; it now sits at $50.5 million domestically and $68.5 million worldwide. Previous year was led by American Sniper’s stunning $89.3 million three-day start. That’s below the $10 million that most analysts predicted that the critically-reviled film (a awful 0% on RT) would likely fetch. Despite being considered a slimmer Academy prospect, The Danish Girl eventually triumphed, posting third weekend earnings of $970,000 (bringing its total to $7.8 million), just higher than Room’s debut bow of $960,000.
