{"id":10841,"date":"2021-07-12T06:43:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2021-07-12T06:43:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:43:58","slug":"black-widow-spins-new-covid-era-box-office-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2021\/07\/12\/black-widow-spins-new-covid-era-box-office-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Widow spins new Covid-era box office record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Disney superhero film\u00a0<em>Black Widow<\/em>\u00a0took in an estimated $80 million in North America this three-day weekend, a pandemic-era record as the Marvel Universe showed continuing lure, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, starring Scarlett Johansson as the cat-suited superspy, took in an additional $60 million streaming on Disney Plus (at $29.99 for subscribers), and $78 million internationally, for an impressive global total of $218 million.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u00a0called it \u201cunprecedented\u201d for a studio to announce its streaming total on a film\u2019s opening weekend. The film has yet to open in China.<\/p>\n<p>Far behind in second place was Universal\u2019s action thriller\u00a0<em>F9: The Fast Saga<\/em>, at $10.9 million, down by more than half from last weekend\u2019s take.<\/p>\n<p>It had held the previous pandemic-era record with a $70 million opening.<\/p>\n<p>Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and John Cena star in this ninth instalment in the\u00a0<em>Fast and Furious<\/em>\u00a0franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Universal also claimed the next two box-office spots.<\/p>\n<p>In third was its animated sequel\u00a0<em>The Boss Baby: Family Business<\/em>, at $8.7 million. The yarn about a cannily can-do \u201cboss baby\u201d features the voices of Alec Baldwin, Eva Longoria, Jeff Goldblum and Lisa Kudrow.<\/p>\n<p>Horror film\u00a0<em>The Forever Purge<\/em>\u00a0placed fourth, at $6.7 million. This latest in the\u00a0<em>Purge<\/em>\u00a0series is again set in a dystopian near-future where all crime, even murder, is made legal one day a year. Ana de la Reguera and Tenoch Huerta star.<\/p>\n<p>And in fifth was Paramount\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Quiet Place: Part II<\/em>, at $3 million, pushing its domestic total near $150 million in its seventh week. John Krasinski directed the horror flick; his wife Emily Blunt stars.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend marked the first time since Covid-19 struck that the domestic box office has surpassed $100 million. It hit $116.8 million, 20 per cent higher than last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Disney superhero film\u00a0Black Widow\u00a0took in an estimated $80 million in North America this three-day weekend, a pandemic-era record as the Marvel Universe showed continuing lure, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The movie, starring Scarlett Johansson as the cat-suited superspy, took in an additional $60 million streaming on Disney Plus (at $29.99 for subscribers), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10843,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions\/10843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}