Box Office Battle: 'Glass' wins weekend with another $19M - InvestingChannel

Box Office Battle: ‘Glass’ wins weekend with another $19M

Comcast (CMCSA; CMCSK) subsidiary Universal’s “Glass” won the weekend at the box office with an estimated $19M in its second outing, for a 10-day domestic total of $73.6M. Overseas, the superhero movie stayed atop the foreign box office chart with another $23.6M for a worldwide cume to $162.7M. The film earned a B CinemaScore and sports a 36% Rotten Tomatoes score. BOX OFFICE RUNNERS-UP: STXfilms’ “The Upside” placed number two in its third weekend, grossing another $12.4M from 3,377 locations for a domestic total of $63.2M. Behind it was AT&T (T) subsidiary Warner Bros’ “Aquaman,” earning $7.4M for a worldwide total of $1.09B. Fox’s (FOXA) “The Kid Who Would be King” placed number four with $7.3M from 3,124 in its debut weekend. Rounding out the top five, Sony’s (SNE) “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” earned $6.2M over the weekend, putting its global cume at $3.38.1M. Other publicly traded companies in filmmaking include Disney’s (DIS), Viacom (VIAB), and Lionsgate’s (LGF.A, LGF.B).