It’s a tight race, but ultimately the Maximals are looking victorious in a battle with the Spider-Society at the weekend box-office.
Paramount Pictures and Skydance’s “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” the seventh entry in the “Transformers” franchise, beat out the second weekend of Sony Animation’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” which opened last Friday.
As of Sunday morning, “Transformers” is pulling ahead – debuting in the top spot with estimates for the three-day now coming in at $60.5 million – ahead of the ‘Spider-Verse’ sequel, which is headed for a domestic opening weekend haul of $55.4 million – down 54% on last week’s debut.
Boasting an A- CinemaScore and budgeted at $195 million, overseas is helping “Transformers” and will take the worldwide gross to around $160 million for the weekend.
Disney’s live-action “The Little Mermaid” is expected to come in third with $22.7 million – down 45%), followed by “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” in fourth with $7 million (and a worldwide gross of just over $800 million). There’s also the Stephen King adaptation “The Boogeyman” in fifth with $6.9 million – down 44% in its second weekend.
Meanwhile “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has now pulled in $1.315 billion at the box-office – surpassing “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” ($1.308 billion ) to become Universal’s third-biggest global grosser ever – behind only ‘Furious 7’ ($1.515 billion in 2015) and ‘Jurassic World’ ($1.671 billion in 2015).
Source: Variety
