It was a excellent news/unhealthy information weekend for “Blue Beetle,” the newest superhero movie to hit North American theaters and the primary constructed round a live-action Latino protagonist.
The DC Studios/Warner Bros. manufacturing topped the charts for the Friday-through-Sunday interval and even dethroned “Barbie,” that reigning queen of pinkness, trade watcher Exhibitor Relations mentioned Sunday.
However its estimated take of $25.4 million was “the bottom DC superhero debut of this period” apart from 2021’s money-losing “Marvel Girl 1984.”
“Beetle” stars 22-year-old American actor Xolo Mariduena — who’s of combined Mexican, Cuban and Ecuadoran descent — as a brand new faculty graduate whose physique is taken over by the mysterious Scarab, which provides him superhuman powers.
Analyst David A. Gross mentioned that whereas ticket gross sales for “Beetle” had been solely a 3rd the typical for brand new superhero flicks, opinions have been good and abroad prospects are sturdy.
“Barbie,” in its fifth week out, scored $21.5 million in ticket gross sales, “an enormous outcome at this level in its theatrical run,” based on Selection. The Warner Bros. fantasy-comedy has now taken in an eye-popping $1.27 billion globally.
In third, additionally in its fifth week out, was Common’s “Oppenheimer,” at $10.6 million. The historic drama in regards to the origins of the primary atomic bomb has handed the $700 million mark globally.
Fourth place went to Paramount’s animated “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” at $8.4 million. Its big voice forged contains Maya Rudolph, Ayo Edebiri, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Dice and Paul Rudd.
And in fifth was Common’s new talking-dog comedy “Strays,” at $8.3 million, a regarding begin for a film made on a $46 million finances.
