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'Avengers: Age Of Ultron' dominates North American box office
Los Angeles, May 11
"Avengers: Age Of Ultron"
held its position atop the North American box office for the second week
and has so far grossed $875 million in ticket earnings around the
world.
The Disney/Marvel movie was on track to take $77.2 million
this three-day weekend, which would be a decrease of 60 percent from
its opening take of $191 million.
For the second-week running,
"Avengers: Age Of Ultron" got a total of $312.9 million in North
America, Xinhua reported on Sunday, quoting Rentrak.
IMAX theatres contributed more than $29 million to its total revenue.
Without
adjusting for ticket price inflation, this gross represented the
second-largest second-weekend gross of all-time, only behind the $103.1
million for the second-weekend take of its predecessor, Marvel's 2012
"The Avengers".
Among its $875 million worldwide gross, the overseas market took up $562 million.
Analysts said that its debut in Japan and China next week will further adding from foreign coffers.
Warner's
female comedy "Hot Pursuit" debuted in second place with an estimated
$13.3 million of ticket earnings. The comedy film, shown in 3,003
theaters, stars Reese Witherspoon and Sofa Vergara.
"Hot
Pursuit" got a poor six percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a
"C+" grade on CinemaScore. The audience breakdown for the film skewed
towards female moviegoers (62 percent) and towards moviegoers over the
age of 25 (82 percent).
The Blake Lively fantasy romance, "The
Age of Adaline," came in third place in its third week, with a weekend
gross of $5.6 million.
Rounding out the 10 most popular movies in
the US and Canada this weekend were "Furious 7" ($5.3 million), "Paul
Blart: Mall Cop 2" ($5.2 million), "Ex Machina" ($3.5 million), "Home"
($3 million), "Woman In Gold" ($1.7 million), "Cinderella" ($1.6
million) and "Unfriended" ($1.4 million).