{"id":51677,"date":"2022-08-21T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dragon-ball-super-2-box-office-slays-beast-with-20m-plus-opening-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T05:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T05:00:35","slug":"dragon-ball-super-2-box-office-slays-beast-with-20m-plus-opening-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dragon-ball-super-2-box-office-slays-beast-with-20m-plus-opening-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dragon Ball Super 2&#8217; Box Office Slays &#8216;Beast&#8217; With $20M-Plus Opening \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n\t<em>Dragon Ball Super: Superhero<\/em> is doing impressive business at the North American box office where it is headed for a first-place finish with a debut of $20 million or more after grossing $10.7 million on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tCrunchyroll, which is distributing the Japanese movie, says the sequel is scoring the best global opening ever for an anime film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tDirected by Tetsuro Kodama from a story by series creator Akira Toriyama, <em>Dragon Ball Super 2<\/em> is the 21<sup>st<\/sup> feature film in the long-running Dragon Ball universe and a sequel to 2018&#8217;s <em>Dragon Ball Super<\/em>: <em>broly<\/em>.  The CGI animated martial arts fantasy, produced by Toei Animation, is playing in more than 3,100 cinemas in North America, including Imax locations, and in more than 100 countries overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tMales made up nearly 80 percent of Friday ticket buyers in the US, while 70 percent of the audience was between the ages of 18 and 35.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n\t<em>Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero<\/em> is easily slaying the weekend&#8217;s other nationwide new offering, <em>beast<\/em>.  Directed by Baltasar Kormakur, the adventure thriller is on course to earn a modest $10 million for the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tWhile that&#8217;s in line with tracking, it&#8217;s still a disappointing start for the Universal release, which stars Idris Elba as a father who takes his family on safari only to come face-to-face with an enraged lion. <em>beast<\/em>which received a lukewarm B Cinemascore, likewise skewed male (56 percent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tAs Hollywood emerges from the pandemic, the August box office is notably light this year in terms of traditional summer tentpoles after a strong May, June and July.  The dearth of product is putting additional pressure on theater chains, with mega-chain Cineworld \u2014 parent company of regal Cinemas \u2014 revealing on Friday that it is exploring bankruptcy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n<p>\tElsewhere at the box office, Sony&#8217;s <em>Bullet Train<\/em> is falling to No.  3 in its sophomore outing with a projected $8 million.  That&#8217;s a modest 41 percent decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m    \">\n\t<em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> remains high up on the chart as it flies toward the $700 million mark at the domestic box office, while A24&#8217;s specialty pic <em>Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/em> rounds out the top 10 as it ups its theater count to more than 2,500 locations.  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Ball Super: Superhero is doing impressive business at the North American box office where it is headed for a first-place finish with a debut of $20 million or more after grossing $10.7 million on Friday. Crunchyroll, which is distributing the Japanese movie, says the sequel is scoring the best global opening ever for an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dragon-ball-super-2-box-office-slays-beast-with-20m-plus-opening-the-hollywood-reporter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Dragon Ball Super 2&#8217; Box Office Slays &#8216;Beast&#8217; With $20M-Plus Opening \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51502,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/box-office-dragon-ball-super-opening-no-1-ahead-of-beast\/","url_meta":{"origin":51677,"position":0},"title":"Box Office: &#8216;Dragon Ball Super&#8217; Opening No.  1 Ahead of &#8216;Beast&#8217;","date":"August 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Just as it looked like the summer movie season was winding down without any well-loved franchises in sight, \u201cDragon Ball\u201d has come to town. \u201cDragon Ball Super: Super Hero\u201d looks to top domestic box office charts for the weekend after scoring $10.7 million on its opening day. 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