Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is still at the top of the US box office, while Michelle Yeoh’s film, Everything Everywhere All at Once, becomes A24 studio’s most profitable feature film on American soil.
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The multiverse continues to make money! For its fourth week of operation, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness still topped the US box office with an additional $31.6 million. Sam Raimi’s film has thus totaled 342 million dollars in the US since its release and has crossed the 800 million dollar mark worldwide.
But the feature film carried by Benedict Cumberbatch is not the only film dealing with the multiverse which appears in the top 10. Everything Everywhere All at Once with Michelle Yeoh is indeed in 6th place at the Box Office for its 9th week. It totals more than $52 million in revenue.
Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the film produced by A24 thus becomes the most profitable in the history of the studio at the national box office, dethroning Lady Bird, who ended her career on US soil with 48.95 million dollars ( and nearly 79 million worldwide).
Everything Everywhere All at Once should be released in France this summer (on VOD or DVD).
Downton Abbey 2: best start for Focus Features since the start of the pandemic
The sequel to the film adaptation of the hit series, Downton Abbey: A New Era, placed second on the podium for its first weekend of operation in the United States with 16 million dollars in revenue. The first part had garnered 31 million dollars over the same period.
However, this second installment produced by Focus Features achieves the best start for a film from the production company since the start of the pandemic, ahead of The Northman and its $12.3 million. The film worn by Alexander Skarsgard also recorded 33 million greenbacks in the sixth week.
The animated film from Dreamworks studios, The Bad Guys totaled 74.3 million green tickets for its 6th week in American theaters. Pierre Perifel’s film thus garners 182 million dollars worldwide and becomes one of the rare animated films to exceed 100 million dollars internationally since the start of the pandemic.
The Secret of the Lost City, the penultimate film by Sandra Bullock before the actress put her career on hiatus, is in 9th place at the US box office for its 10th week, and totals more than 99 million dollars in the United States. (175 million internationally). The adventure film should cross the symbolic threshold of $100 million by this evening.
At last, Men by Alex Garland, presented in a special session at the Directors’ Fortnight, recorded 3.3 million dollars in receipts for its first weekend in US theaters and took 5th place on the podium. The feature film will be released on June 8 in French cinemas.
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