“Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” utterly slayed the box-office this weekend in the United States, taking in over $20.1 million domestically – numbers that could go higher by Sunday.
Crunchyroll, which is distributing this Toei Animation-produced sequel to 2018’s “Dragon Ball Super: Broly,” says that the movie scored the best global opening ever for an anime film and more than double the $9.8 million debut of its predecessor.
The film easily beat the Idris Elba-led creature feature “Beast”. Scoring solid critical reviews but only a lukewarm B CinemaScore, the film debuted in second place with $11.6 million – a disappointing start for the Universal release.
“Bullet Train” fell to third with a projected $8 million, down a modest 41%. The news of a PVOD release of “Top Gun: Maverick” didn’t impact its slow decline, the film still racking up a further $5.85 million for fourth place.
“DC League of Super-Pets” rounded out the top five with $5.78 million. In limited release, “Orphan: First Kill” debuted to $1.675 million, scoring the best per screen average of any film in the Top 25 aside from ‘Dragon Ball’.
A24’s continued expansion of “Bodies Bodies Bodies” has seen the film hit $2.4 million in full wide release, but its $949 per screen average suggests it’s certainly not their next “Everything Everywhere All At Once”.
Source: THR
