AvatarTheWayofWater tops box office for second weekend
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While Cameron’s films like the “Avatar” original and “Titanic” tend to have serious legs at the box office, sequels tend to open big and decline quickly, complicating guesses on where the film will end up. Its second-weekend drop-off from the“This is James Cameron’s first $100 million opener,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore. “For this movie to have opened that big and only dropped 58%, it shows it has staying power.
Universal’s animated “Shrek” spinoff, “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”, featuring the voices of Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, finished a distant second with $11.35 million in its opening weekend.READ MORE:The weekend’s biggest disappointment was “Babylon”, the epic of early Hollywood from “La La Land” director Damian Chazelle starring Brad Pitt and and Margot Robbie. In a nationwide release it brought in just $3.5 million, finishing fourth.
The concerns proved justified, as “Babylon” barely made more than half of the opening of “Amsterdam”.
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