'Black Adam' stays atop North America box office
Still from 'Black Adam' starring Dwayne Johnson
Warner Bros.' film 'Black Adam' remained atop competition for the second weekend running, hauling in a modest estimated $27.7 million in North American box office receipts, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.
A feature that explores the origin story behind 2019's 'Shazam,' the DC Comics superhero, 'Black Adam' stars Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as a former slave bestowed with special powers.
Coming in second for the Friday-through-Sunday period was Universal's 'Ticket to Paradise,' a romantic comedy starring A-list stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts. The flick brought in $10 million.
Horror films, though, scored more broadly at the box office in the run-up to Halloween.
"Four of the top 10 movies this weekend are horror films," said David A Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
'Prey for the Devil,'a Lionsgate flick, was in the number three spot, pulling in $7 million.
"This is an average opening for an original horror film ... Reviews are poor," Gross said.
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Two other horror films, Paramount's 'Smile'at fourth and Universal's 'Halloween Ends'at fifth, brought in $5 million and $3.8 million respectively.
Overall, it was not a great weekend for Hollywood, with films earning an estimated $66 million, down from the $100 million from the previous weekend.
Rounding out the top 10 were
6) 'Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile'($2.8 million)
7) 'Till'($2.8 million)
8) 'Terrifier 2'($1.8 million)
9) 'The Woman King'($1.1 million)
10) 'Tar'($1 million)
