Our elected officials let us down in 2020, but one of the most tangible ways they let us down was to ignore the reality of the threat posed by COVID-19, which will soon be a full year of restrictions and closures will be. However, it’s hard to really understand how long it’s, so here’s a clearer illustration of how long the coronavirus nightmare was: as of this weekend, the US box office has got it now two Liam Neeson thrillers since the pandemic began. Two! And no wonder movies! The first was Honest thief in October, and now we have the Clint Eastwood-esque The shooter—What Liam Neeson interprets as a certified American American living on a farm near the Mexican border and aiming his gun at immigrants crossing his property. It won the box office this past weekend and earned a pretty impressive $ 3.2 million. (It was for the record also the third Liam Neeson films the pandemic if you count the comedy Made in Italy. Fourth if you count Ordinary love from February. The man work.)
That was enough to dethrone Wonder Woman 1984, which still earned $ 2.6 million (for a significant total of $ 35.8, which is a big box take during this pandemic). Unfortunately for Diana Of Themyscira, however, there is some hope for the total draw of The Croods: A New Age staring to slip away: it earned just over $ 2 million this past weekend, which is not so much less than WW84, and that puts it at just under $ 40 million. It will need to download quickly Wonder Woman 1984 to catch up – not that it, or any of this, really matters.
The next few places on the list, like last week, remains unchanged: News from the world Earn $ 1 million, Monster Hunter Earn $ 920,000, Fatal Earn $ 530,000 (huge decrease between the two), and Promising young woman earned only $ 430,000. Disney’s Necessary Doubtful Reissue for the Week (The emperor’s new groove this time) earned only $ 169,000, and everything after that is pretty grim. But, as we keep saying, it’s probably not safe to go to a movie theater right now anyway, so … yes.
For a more detailed breakdown of the box office at the weekend, click on over to Kassa Mojo.