{"id":16160,"date":"2022-02-14T08:16:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T08:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=16160"},"modified":"2022-02-14T08:16:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T08:16:35","slug":"death-on-the-nile-cruises-to-n-america-box-office-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2022\/02\/14\/death-on-the-nile-cruises-to-n-america-box-office-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Death on the Nile’ cruises to N.America box office lead \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOS ANGELES\u00a0 – “Death on the Nile” cruised to the top of the North American box office in its opening weekend, showing the continuing lure of a good old-fashioned Agatha Christie murder mystery, according to industry data Sunday.<\/p>\n

The movie from 20th Century — the third based on Christie\u00a0s 1937 novel of the same name — took in an estimated $12.8 million for the Friday-to-Sunday period, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported.<\/p>\n

“This is a fair opening, with a couple of asterisks,” said David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. The asterisks: Sunday\u00a0s widely watched football Super Bowl always depresses filmgoing, and coronavirus-hit Hollywood is still battling its way back from the Omicron surge.<\/p>\n

“Death on the Nile” stars and was directed by Kenneth Branagh as perspicacious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, a role he also played in his “Murder on the Orient Express.”<\/p>\n

Branagh is having a good year: His “Belfast” garnered best-film and best-director Oscar nominations.<\/p>\n

The success of “Death” left last weekend\u00a0s box office leader, “Jackass Forever,” slipping to second place, at $8.1 million. Paramount\u00a0s irreverent comedy features spoofs, gross-outs and painful stunts dreamed up by Johnny Knoxville and his merry pranksters.<\/p>\n

In third spot, opening strategically before Valentine\u00a0s Day on Monday, was Universal\u00a0s rom-com “Marry Me,” at $8 million.<\/p>\n

It stars Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson as two strangers — she a superstar, he a nerdy divorced math teacher — who spontaneously agree to marry each other and then… (fill in appropriate Hollywood ending).<\/p>\n

Sony blockbuster “Spider-Man: No Way Home” took fourth spot, at $7.2 million. The Sony\/Marvel film has been in the top five domestically since its release nine weeks ago; its international take has now passed $1 billion.<\/p>\n

And in fifth spot was another new release, “Blacklight” from Focus Features. The quirky Liam Neeson crime thriller, which has suffered poor reviews, took in $3.6 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES\u00a0 – “Death on the Nile” cruised to the top of the North American box office in its opening weekend, showing the continuing lure of a good old-fashioned Agatha Christie murder mystery, according to industry data Sunday. The movie from 20th Century — the third based on Christie\u00a0s 1937 novel of the same name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16160","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\/16160","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=16160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16162,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160\/revisions\/16162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}