Disney and Pixar debut the Chris Pratt and Tom Holland animated 'Onward,' and Warner Bros. opens the Ben Affleck drama 'The Way Back.'
Amid mounting coronavirus fears, which led to the unprecedented cancellation of the South by Southwest festival on Friday, enough moviegoers turned out to see “Onward” to make the Disney-Pixar film tops at the box office. Still, the film opened with $40 million, which was on the low end of analyst projections of $40 million to $45 million, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore.
In second place, Universal’s “The Invisible Man” added $15.2 million in its second weekend for a cumulative $52.7 million. Globally, the film has earned $98.3 million.opened with $8.5 million. The film stars Ben Affleck as an alcoholic construction worker turned high school basketball coach and was positively received with a B+ CinemaScore and an 88% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
In seventh place, Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life” added $3 million in its eighth weekend and crossed the $200-million mark with a cumulative of $202 million.
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