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Quiet Place roars back to top spot

Amy Schumer and Adrian Martinez star in I Feel Pretty. It came in third at last week’s box office and made about $16 million.
Amy Schumer and Adrian Martinez star in I Feel Pretty. It came in third at last week’s box office and made about $16 million.

Paramount Pictures' surprise hit horror film A Quiet Place made a rare return to the No. 1 spot in its third weekend in theaters, toppling The Rock's Rampage and outdrawing a new release from comic actor Amy Schumer.

A Quiet Place generated about $21 million in the U.S. and Canada, researcher ComScore Inc. said. That was enough to displace last weekend's leader, the Warner Bros. action film Rampage, which fell to second place, and top the opening of Schumer's I Feel Pretty in third place for STX Entertainment.

Made for just $17 million, A Quiet Place has taken in $206.1 million worldwide, providing a boost to Viacom Inc.'s struggling film division. It'll get tougher for smaller films to stand out starting this coming weekend with the release of Walt Disney Co.'s Avengers: Infinity War, a Marvel superhero picture that kicks off Hollywood's summer blockbuster season.

Analysts at Box Office Pro were forecasting $23 million in sales for A Quiet Place. The film features writer-director-actor John Krasinski and his real-life wife, Emily Blunt, in a tale about a family that must live in silence to hide from creatures that hunt by sound.

I Feel Pretty opened with sales of $16 million, missing the $17 million projection of Box Office Pro. Schumer plays a woman whose insecurities vanish when she awakes from a fall. The $32 million production garnered 36 percent positive reviews, according to RottenTomatoes.com, which aggregates critics' comments.

Two other new releases Super Troopers 2, from 21st Century Fox Inc., and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.'s Traffik placed fourth and ninth, respectively.

Super Troopers 2, a comedy about officers at the U.S. and Canada border, opened with weekend sales of $15.2 million, beating Box Office Pro's projection of $6.2 million. Just 31 percent of critics gave the film positive reviews.

Traffik posted sales of almost $4 million, compared with projections of $2.7 million. The film follows a couple on a romantic weekend in the mountains who are set upon by a biker gang. Critics were tough on that picture, too, with just 29 percent posting positive notices.

Rampage, a $120 million production from Time Warner Inc.'s film division, will struggle to break even at the box office given its current trajectory. It finished the weekend with $283.3 million in global ticket sales, a sum that's split with theater operators.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:

  1. A Quiet Place, Paramount, $20,911,809, 3,808 locations, $5,492 average, $131,270,520, 3 weeks.

  2. Rampage, Warner Bros., $20,094,294, 4,115 locations, $4,883 average, $65,694,360, 2 weeks.

  3. I Feel Pretty, STX Entertainment, $16,030,218, 3,440 locations, $4,660 average, $16,030,218, 1 week.

  4. Super Troopers 2, 20th Century Fox, $15,181,624, 2,038 locations, $7,449 average, $15,181,624, 1 week.

  5. Blumhouse's Truth Or Dare, Universal, $7,793,425, 3,068 locations, $2,540 average, $30,268,840, 2 weeks.

  6. Ready Player One, Warner Bros., $7,418,738, 3,208 locations, $2,313 average, $126,100,064, 4 weeks.

  7. Blockers, Universal, $6,835,145, 3,134 locations, $2,181 average, $48,102,190, 3 weeks.

  8. Black Panther, Disney, $4,932,627, 1,930 locations, $2,556 average, $681,374,736, 10 weeks.

  9. Traffik, Lionsgate, $3,941,338, 1,046 locations, $3,768 average, $3,941,338, 1 week.

  10. Isle Of Dogs, Fox Searchlight, $3,461,633, 1,947 locations, $1,778 average, $24,422,171, 5 weeks.

  11. Bharat Ane Nenu, Great India Films, $2,488,090, 190 locations, $13,095 average, $2,488,090, 1 week.

  12. I Can Only Imagine, Roadside Attractions, $2,428,761, 1,994 locations, $1,218 average, $79,392,663, 6 weeks.

  13. Tyler Perry's Acrimony, Lionsgate, $1,965,529, 1,148 locations, $1,712 average, $40,980,412, 4 weeks.

  14. Chappaquiddick, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, $1,834,181, 1,455 locations, $1,261 average, $14,289,282, 3 weeks.

  15. Sherlock Gnomes, Paramount, $1,417,592, 1,459 locations, $972 average, $39,569,048, 5 weeks.

  16. The Miracle Season, MIRR/LD, $1,123,854, 1,122 locations, $1,002 average, $8,829,419, 3 weeks.

  17. Beirut, Bleecker Street, $1,001,910, 755 locations, $1,327 average, $3,853,834, 2 weeks.

  18. A Wrinkle In Time, Disney, $731,702, 665 locations, $1,100 average, $93,718,321, 7 weeks.

  19. Pacific Rim Uprising, Universal, $585,085, 646 locations, $906 average, $58,671,825, 5 weeks.

  20. Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero, Fun Academy, $544,161, 1,386 locations, $393 average, $2,245,200, 2 weeks.

MovieStyle on 04/27/2018

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