‘Godzilla x Kong’ dominates North American box office for a second week
GODZILLA x Kong extended its monstrous reign over the North American box office for a second weekend, according to estimates on Sunday (Apr 7) from industry watcher Exhibitor Relations.
The feature, which sees the enormous gorilla and reptilian giant set their differences aside and team up to save their species – and ours – took in US$31.7 million over the weekend in the United States and Canada, according to the figures.
In second place with an estimated US$10 million in ticket sales was the action film Monkey Man, which British actor Dev Patel both directs and stars in.
The thriller, set in India, is “ultra-violent, driven by class differences, corruption and personal vengeance”, said analyst David A Gross.
“Foreign stories do not always work in North America; it is working here,” he wrote.
He added: “it is going to be very profitable.”