James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” led ticket sales in movies theaters for the sixth straight weekend, making it the first film to have such a sustained reign atop the box office since 2009′s “Avatar.”
led ticket sales in movie theaters for the sixth straight weekend, making it the first film to have such a sustained reign atop the box office since 2009's"Avatar."
The box-office domination for"The Way of Water" has been aided, in part, by a dearth of formidable challengers. The only new wide release from a major studio on the weekend was the thrillerfrom Sony's Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films. A low-budget sequel to 2018's"Searching," starring Storm Reid as a teenager seeking her missing mother,"Missing" plays out across computer screens. The film, budgeted at $7 million, debuted with $9.3 million.
starring Tom Hanks, has flourished in a marketplace that's been trying for adult-oriented dramas. The film, a remake of the Swedish film"A Man Called Ove," about a retired man whose suicide plans are continually foiled by his neighbors, made $9 million in its second week of wide release. It's taken in $35.3 million domestically through Sunday.
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