{"id":1403952,"date":"2022-03-28T08:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403952"},"modified":"2022-03-28T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T12:01:07","slug":"the-lost-city-looks-to-take-the-box-office-top-spot-from-the-batman-with-30-million-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-lost-city-looks-to-take-the-box-office-top-spot-from-the-batman-with-30-million-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Lost City\u201d Looks to Take the Box Office Top Spot from \u201cThe Batman\u201d with $30 Million Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-lost-city-looks-to-take-the-box-office-top-spot-from-the-batman-with-30-million-opening-weekend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403952&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>After three weeks of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-batman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-batman\" data-tag=\"the-batman\">The Batman<\/a>,\u201d the domestic box office has a new leader. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-lost-city\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-lost-city\" data-tag=\"the-lost-city\">The Lost City<\/a>,\u201d starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, looks to claim the weekend\u2019s top spot with a projected $30 million opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount\u2019s adventure rom-com blasted off to $11.5 million from 4,253 locations on its opening day, after grossing <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/box-office-sandra-bullock-channing-tatum-lost-city-previews-1235214563\/\">$2.5 million in Thursday previews<\/a>. It\u2019s an impressive start for a release hailing from a genre that hasn\u2019t had the best track record of getting audiences into theaters over the past few years. \u201cLost City\u201d isn\u2019t your typical rom-com though, boasting a grand jungle setting, a penchant for violence and a sense of scale that could\u2019ve helped convince ticket buyers to perceive the release as an event worth attending.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThe Lost City,\u201d Bullock plays a romance novelist who is kidnapped by a billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe), who seeks to use her knowledge of an ancient language to find a treasure. Tatum plays the novelist\u2019s hunky cover model who decides to rescue her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/reviews\/the-lost-city-review-sandra-bullock-channing-tatum-1235202963\/\"><em>Variety<\/em>\u2018s Peter Debruge<\/a> enjoyed the film, calling it \u201cthe kind of breezy two-hour getaway that doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously, delivering screwball banter between Bullock and Tatum \u2014 a guilty-pleasure treasure hunt that pretends to be more progressive than it really is by alternating between who\u2019s saving whom.\u201d The film has been amicably received, earning a 76% approval aggregate from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a \u201cB+\u201d rating on CinemaScore, indicating general approval from audiences. The film carries a sizable production budget of $68 million, so Paramount will keep its fingers crossed for solid word-of-mouth in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Reeves\u2019 \u201cThe Batman\u201d has held a tight grip on theaters for the past three weeks, generating a hefty fraction of domestic box office grosses since its release on March 4. The Warner Bros. release added an additional $5.5 million to its haul on Friday, dropping 49% from its previous Friday. Since debuting, the film has grossed an impressive $316 million from North American theaters to become the second-highest grossing release of the pandemic era. Internationally, the film has exceeded a gross of $600 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Batman\u201d was an expensive operation for Warner Bros., carrying a production budget that ballooned to $200 million due to production delays during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even so, the DC adaptation starring Robert Pattinson is about as big as any movie could be at the box office, dwarfed only by the supermassive holiday release of \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Indian epic \u201cRRR\u201d is also rocketing off to a healthy North American debut, landing in third place on domestic charts with $5.42 million from 4,517 locations. The Sarigami Cinemas release is expected to drawn $12 million to $15 million in grosses through Sunday \u2014 numbers which would make it the biggest ever stateside debut for an Indian film. \u201cRRR\u201d, from \u201cBaahubali\u201d maestro S.S. Rajamouli, had become one of the most eagerly anticipated Bollywood productions of recent years, even through several production and release delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRRR\u201d stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan as two revolutionaries against the British Raj and Nizam of Hyderabad, respectively. The Telugu-Hindi production imagines a friendship between the parallel heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Sony\u2019s \u201cUncharted\u201d is holding steady at the fourth place slot at the box office. The studio is projecting a $4.6 million gross for the Tom Holland vehicle, marking a 41% drop-off from its previous outing. Now in its sixth weekend, the video game adaptation has done solid business stateside. It should expand its domestic gross beyond $133 million through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJujutsu Kaisen 0\u201d will likely round out the domestic box offices top five. The anime film, released by Crunchyroll, took in $1.3 million on Friday from 539 locations, a near-vertical 85% drop-off from its opening day last weekend. \u201cJujustu Kaisen 0\u201d serves as a prequel to the highly popular \u201cJujutsu Kaisen\u201d series and likely drew a front-loaded box office performance due to enthusiasm among fans. Even so, the film should expand its domestic gross to $27.6 million through Sunday \u2014 an impressive figure that demonstrates the dedicated audience that anime draws in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three weeks of \u201cThe Batman,\u201d the domestic box office has a new leader. \u201cThe Lost City,\u201d starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, looks to claim the weekend\u2019s top spot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}