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Box office: Superman has one of the best second-weekend holds of the year

Box office: Superman has one of the best second-weekend holds of the year

Meanwhile, attempts to revive the I Know What You Did Last Summer and Smurfs franchises fell flat.

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Capes for everyone: Superman (David Corenswet), Krypto, and a robot in Superman.

A few of this week’s highlights:

  • Superman had one of the best second-weekend holds of any major film this year, and the best of any live-action Superman movie since the 1980s.

  • I Know What You Did Last Summer and Smurfs had the lowest openings of any film in their respective major-studio franchises.

  • F1 passed Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby to become the top-grossing live-action race-car film in North America. (It was already the top such film overseas.)

  • Eddington had the lowest opening of any Ari Aster film that opened in wide release.

  • Lilo & Stitch became the year’s first Hollywood movie to gross a billion dollars worldwide.

And now, a few more stats and facts re: this week’s top ten, title by title:

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