Lara Croft stays behind Black Panther

John Michael Finley (left) and Trace Adkins star in I Can Only Imagine. The film came in third at last weekend’s box office and made about $17 million.
John Michael Finley (left) and Trace Adkins star in I Can Only Imagine. The film came in third at last weekend’s box office and made about $17 million.

Black Panther, Walt Disney Co.'s new superhero hit, stole the show for a fifth-straight weekend, beating a lackluster Tomb Raider reboot from Warner Bros.

The African superhero movie collected $26.7 million last weekend in North American theaters, researcher ComScore Inc. said Monday. That makes the picture the first to lead the domestic box office for five straight weeks since Avatar went on to hold the crown for seven weeks in 2010. Tomb Raider, with Alicia Vikander taking the Lara Croft role made famous by Angelina Jolie, placed second with $23.6 million, ahead of three other new wide releases.

Black Panther continues to buoy theaters at home and abroad. In recent days, the film has risen to No. 16 in all-time sales, passing The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Its cumulative sales in North America climbed to $605 million, according to ComScore, making it only the seventh movie to top $600 million.

Internationally, Black Panther took in $30 million this weekend, bringing its global revenue to $1.18 billion, ComScore said.

With Tomb Raider, critics were split over Vikander's reprisal of the video-game icon, with only 38 percent of top reviewers having positive comments, according to aggregator RottenTomatoes.com. The movie, which cost $94 million to make, earned $23.6 million on its first weekend, according to analysts at Box Office Mojo.

In Warner Bros.' resuscitation of the franchise Lara Croft, Vikander stars as the daughter of an eccentric adventurer and has set out to solve the mystery of his disappearance. The film was made in partnership with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. While the movie met Warner's expectations, it's unlikely to yield a sequel.

In fourth place, Disney's A Wrinkle in Time, now in its second week, added $16.2 million to its earnings, for about $61 million.

Additionally, Columbia's Jumanji, which came in at No. 12, managed to cross the $400 million mark after 13 weeks in theaters. This is also the first time the film has fallen out of the top 10 since its opening Dec. 20.

The Orchard opened the teen comedy drama Flow-er in three locations with $57,851.

Three other new releases vied for moviegoers' attention. Roadside Attractions, which is partly owned by Lions Gate Entertainment, released I Can Only Imagine, a family film about the Christian band MercyMe. It placed third with about $17 million, beating Box Office Mojo's forecast of $6 million.

Love, Simon, a coming-of-age tale about a young gay man, placed fifth with $11.8 million in sales for 20th Century Fox. That missed the forecast of $14.3 million from Box Office Pro.

7 Days in Entebbe, from Comcast Corp.'s Universal Pictures and Focus Features, didn't crack ComScore's top 10 list.

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 Sunday by comScore:

  1. Black Panther, Disney, $26,650,690, 3,834 locations, $6,951 average, $605,027,218, 5 weeks.

  2. Tomb Raider, Warner Bros./MGM, $23,633,317, 3,854 locations, $6,132 average, $23,633,317, 1 week.

  3. I Can Only Imagine, Roadside Attractions, $17,104,797, 1,739 locations, $9,836 average, $17,104,797, 1 week.

  4. A Wrinkle in Time, Disney, $16,256,879, 3,980 locations, $4,085 average, $60,751,533, 2 weeks.

  5. Love, Simon, 20th Century Fox, $11,756,244, 2,402 locations, $4,894 average, $11,756,244, 1 week.

  6. Game Night, Warner Bros., $5,602,230, 2,686 locations, $2,086 average, $54,206,414, 4 weeks.

  7. Peter Rabbit, Columbia, $5,201,647, 2,725 locations, $1,909 average, $102,441,915, 6 weeks.

  8. Strangers: Prey at Night, Aviron Pictures, $4,701,089, 2,464 locations, $1,908 average, $18,503,141, 2 weeks.

  9. Red Sparrow, 20th Century Fox, $4,531,187, 2,583 locations, $1,754 average, $39,664,829, 3 weeks.

  10. Death Wish, MGM, $3,368,565, 2,676 locations, $1,259 average, $29,950,250, 3 weeks.

  11. Annihilation, Paramount, $1,733,605, 1,087 locations, $1,595 average, $29,628,348, 4 weeks.

  12. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Columbia, $1,622,505, 1,556 locations, $1,043 average, $400,246,103, 13 weeks.

  13. 7 Days in Entebbe, Focus Features, $1,592,645, 838 locations, $1,901 average, $1,592,645, 1 week.

  14. The Greatest Showman, 20th Century Fox, $1,134,199, 737 locations, $1,539 average, $169,703,817, 13 weeks.

  15. The Hurricane Heist, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, $1,033,246, 2,283 locations, $453 average, $5,369,167, 2 weeks.

  16. The Shape of Water, Fox Searchlight, $793,617, 758 locations, $1,047 average, $62,682,254, 16 weeks.

  17. Gringo, STX Entertainment, $655,891, 2,314 locations, $283 average, $4,522,102, 2 weeks.

  18. Fifty Shades Freed, Universal, $610,535, 873 locations, $699 average, $99,626,835, 6 weeks.

  19. The Death of Stalin, IFC Films, $537,497, 32 locations, $16,797 average, $801,066, 2 weeks.

  20. Thoroughbreds, Focus Features, $487,690, 564 locations, $865 average, $2,294,050, 2 weeks.

MovieStyle on 03/23/2018

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