The studio was interested, but David Carradine was given the starring role in Kung Fu.īy the snub, Lee departed for Asia to make a series of martial arts films thatįound success with audiences in Hong Kong.
with an idea for a series about a Shaolin monk in the American west.
television appearances in the late 1960s and thought he was on the verge of a breakthrough when he approached Warner Bros. The Universal animated adventure, which debuted theatrically last November, has amassed $54.3 million domestically.Bruce Lee had started to make a name for himself via a handful of U.S. “The Croods: A New Age” rounded out the top five, earning $520,000 from 1,440 screens. The film, about a Queens basketball prodigy that was written and directed by chef and author Eddie Huang, has made $2.2 million to date. “Boogie,” a drama from Focus Features, landed at No. Internationally, the film added $1.5 million from 33 countries, bringing its cumulative overseas tally to $5 million. In total, the sci-fi thriller with Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland has made $6.9 million. In third place, Lionsgate’s “Chaos Walking” brought in $2.25 million from 1,995 theaters. Overseas, where HBO Max is not yet available, “Tom and Jerry” has made $38.8 million for a global bounty of $66.9 million. It’s also streaming on HBO Max at no extra cost to subscribers.
The film, starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Colin Jost and Michael Pena, has made $28 million in North America. Warner Bros.’ live-action-animated hybrid “ Tom and Jerry” nabbed second place, pulling in $4 million from 2,454 locations in its third weekend of release. In the meantime, family offerings have been a popular draw. Disney’s “Black Widow” and Paramount’s “A Quiet Place Part II” are some of the anticipated titles slated for May. will encourage studios to put out their biggest movies. In Hollywood and beyond, many are hoping the reopening of theaters in NYC and L.A. “With the reopening of major cities like New York and Los Angeles, we are thankfully on the threshold of a reemergence of the big screen experience.” “The business is slowly on the mend,” says Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst with Comscore. It’s an incremental gain from last month, when roughly 65% of cinemas were closed. theaters were open this weekend, according to Comscore. Across the country, New York City movie theaters are newly allowed to welcome patrons again, meaning the country’s two biggest movie markets are back in business after a brutal, desolate 12 months.Īround 50% of U.S. Few L.A.-based venues were able to resume operations under such short notice, but several plan to begin selling tickets again next weekend. Many are optimistic that a moviegoing revival could be on the horizon because theaters in Los Angeles were given permission to reopen for the first time in nearly a year. But these days, new releases are few and far between and film exhibitors are happy to offer customers what they can. In traditional times, movie theater operators would likely refuse to showcase a film that is also streaming online. The family film is also available to rent on Disney Plus, the company’s streaming service, for an extra $30 fee. “Raya and the Last Dragon” has generated another $36 million at the international box office for a global haul of $52.6 million. Those ticket sales, representing a 35% decline in its second weekend of release, push its overall total to $15.8 million domestically. Disney’s animated adventure “ Raya and the Last Dragon” remained victorious at the domestic box office, collecting $5.5 million from 2,163 venues over the weekend.
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