(Los Angeles) The film for young people Paw Patrol jumped to the top of the North American box office for its first weekend after its release, with $23 million in revenue, ahead of the horror film Saw Xaccording to figures published on Sunday from the specialist firm Exhibitor Relations.
“It’s a great start” for PAW Patrol: The Super Patrol the Movie, underlined expert David Gross. “Even if it does not compete in the category of the behemoths Disney, Pixar or Illumination”, this film from Paramount Studios has a much more modest budget and should therefore experience a profitable destiny, according to the analyst.
In this animated film, American actor and comedian Chris Rock and former tennis champion Serena Williams lend their voices to dog characters with superpowers. In this new adventure inspired by the hit cartoon, the Super Patrol sets out on the trail of supervillains, whom it seeks to stop in order to save Adventureville, which has crashed on a magical meteorite.
For its release weekend (Friday to Sunday), the film Saw X sold $18 million worth of tickets, a sharp performance for a feature film that cost $13 million. In this new part of the saga Sawthe famous and mysterious serial killer, sick with cancer, takes revenge on a scam by setting up an ingenious and Machiavellian game.
The film The Creatorwhich takes place in a world where humans are at war against artificial intelligence, took third place (14 million) while the horror film The Nun II is no longer in the public’s odor of sanctity, falling to the 4e place after dominating the box office the previous weekend.
Here is the rest of the top 10 :
5. The Blind (4.1 million)
6. A Haunting in Venice (3.8 million)
7. Dumb Money (3.5 million)
8. Equalizer 3 (2.7 million)
9. Expend4bles (2.5 million)
10. barbie (1.4 million)