According to data from movie statistics company Comscore, Open Road’s thrilling action film “The Marksman” led the North American box office last week, grossing about 3.2 million USD from 1,975 USD. theaters in the first week of release. 

Open Road’s thrilling action movie “The Marksman” led the North American box office last week. Photo: indiewire.com

In director Robert Lorenz’s debut film, actor Liam Neeson plays Jim – a rancher living near the Arizona border (USA). One day, he accidentally discovered a Mexican mother and son trying to cross the border to the US to escape the pursuit of a notorious drug gang in Mexico.

In that dangerous situation, Jim came to the rescue and pushed himself into a risky escape, to bring the 11-year-old boy and his mother to safety.

Jim in “The Marksman” is the 129th role in Liam Neeson’s diverse acting career, and is also Neeson’s second film released by Open Road during the COVID-19 pandemic.

broadcast. Previously, Neeson and Open Road’s film “Honest Thief” also topped the North American box office for 2 weeks, after premiering in October 2020. 

In the near future, this veteran star has up to 5 more works in production and scheduled to be released. Despite his old age, he is still one of the most hard-working actors in Hollywood today, regardless of whether they are big-budget works or from independent producers.

The No. 1 movie of the last three weeks, “Wonder Woman 1984,” fell to second place this week, with $2.6 million in revenue from 2,201 theaters. Thus, the hit movie from Warner Bros.

has grossed $35.8 million in North America, since being released simultaneously in theaters and on the HBO Max streaming platform on Christmas Day, December 25, 2020. Meanwhile, the theatrical release of “Wonder Woman 1984” in international markets is one week earlier than in the US. Up to now, this work has achieved a total revenue of 141.7 million USD globally.

With a production budget of 200 million USD, the film is the sequel to “Wonder Woman” – a work that was a huge commercial hit in 2017 when it earned 822 million USD from the global box office. With director Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot in the title role, “Wonder Woman 1984” follows Diana Prince as she battles two formidable enemies during the Cold War.

Universal and DreamWorks’ animated comedy film “The Croods: A New Age” ranked third in the ranking of the most popular films in North America last week, with revenue of 2.04 million USD in its third week. 8 premieres.

To date, this work has brought the studio 39.28 million USD in the North American market alone and 134.8 million USD globally (including 17 markets outside the region mentioned above). 

As the debut film of director Joel Crawford, “The Croods: A New Age” had a production cost of 65 million USD, with the voice participation of many stars such as Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds. .

This is the sequel to the film released in 2013, about the adventures of the Croods family searching for a safer place to live and then meeting another family several evolutionary levels higher than them.

Due to the unpredictable situation of the COVID-19 acute respiratory infection epidemic, only 37% of movie theaters in North America are currently back on.