(Los Angeles) The Boxing Movie Creed III stunned the competition in North American theaters this weekend, grossing $58.7 million for one of the best sports movie debuts in box office history.
First-time director Michael B. Jordan – who also plays the title role of Apollo Creed – is the “undisputed box office champ,” according to industry firm Exhibitor Relations.
For David A. Gross, of Franchise Entertainment Research, the film is off to a “sensational” start. “Weekends like this are good news for the sector,” said the expert.
In this ninth film in the Rocky saga, the first without Sylvester Stallone, Apollo Creed comes out of retirement for a much-anticipated showdown against an old friend, played by Jonathan Majors.
The latter also embodies the super-villain in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, alongside Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly. The Marvel movie slipped to second place in the box office chart after two weeks at the top, grossing $12.5 million between Friday and Sunday.
In third place with $11 million in revenue, the new black comedy from Universal Studios, crazy bearwhich is scheduled for release on March 15 in France.
The film is inspired by an event in 1985, when packets of cocaine were dropped from an airplane by smugglers in a forest in the southern United States, and later consumed by an 80 kg black bear. In the fiction, the bear does not die of an overdose, but embarks on a murderous epic.
Demon Slayer : Kimetsu no Yaiba, sequel to the 2020 Japanese anime film, is in fourth place with $10.1 million at the box office. The first Demon Slayer, based on the manga of the same name, had a record North American box office debut for a non-English language film with $19.5 million, according to the trade magazine. variety.
In fifth place, with 8.7 million pocketed this weekend, is the Christian film jesus revolutionthe true story of a bearded man with long hair from the California hippie of the early 1970s, who shakes up a more traditional church and gathers around him hundreds of young people immersed in a counter-culture with mystical accents.
The rest of the top 10
6. Avatar: The Way of Water ($3.6 million)
7. Operation Fortune: Cunning War (3.2 million)
8. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2.7 million)
9. Magic Mike’s Last Dance (1.2 million)
10. 80 for Brady (0.8 million)