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Liam Neeson’s The Marksman aims low to secure top spot at the US box office

January 25, 2021 by Matt Rodgers

With the moviegoing business decimated in most corners of the world, it doesn’t take much for a film to eek out top spot at the domestic box-office, and that’s the case once again this week as Liam Neeson’s The Marksman (read our ★★★ review here) held on at the summit with just over $2 million, taking its cumulative total to a depressing $6.1 million after 10 days of release.

With theaters closed in most of the major cities across the US, and a dearth of new films to fill the screens, The Marksman was able to fend off The Croods: A New Age, which mined $1.8 million in its tenth week of release. That took it’s total to $41.8 million domestic and $139.8 million globally. Not bad for a low-key sequel released at the height of a global pandemic.

As Wonder Woman 1984 left HBO Max as part of the 31-day streaming agreement, it still managed to lasso $1.6 million for a domestic total of $37.7 million, and global haul of $148 million.

Just below that you’ll find another film which attempted to take on the pandemic with a cinema-only release, Sony’s videogame adaptation of the hugely popular Monster Hunter series, which grossed 820,000 for a domestic bounty of $10.2 million.

Paul Greengrass and Tom Hank’s reunion, News of the World, took the PVOD and simultaneous theatrical release route and rode off with $810,000, for a total of $9.6 million at the domestic box-office.

It was the same approach for Emerald Fennel’s superb Promising Young Woman, which added another $400,000 for a total of $4 million, and should generate plenty more business as we gather pace towards awards season.

After four weeks in cinemas Hilary Swank psychological thriller Fatale took its total north of $5 million, with a weekend haul of $415,000, while the remainder of the chart, which you can see over at Box-Office Mojo, was made up of delayed Casey Affleck weepie Our Friend, and holdovers The War with Grandpa and Pinocchio.

Oh for the days of Sonic the Hedgehog opening with $58 million.

 

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Liam Neeson, The Marksman, US Box Office

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