{"id":10632,"date":"2019-10-21T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T19:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=10632"},"modified":"2019-10-25T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:49:13","slug":"box-office-insider-maleficent-2-is-americas-top-mistress-but-far-more-powerful-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/box-office-insider-maleficent-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office Insider: \u2018Maleficent 2\u2019 Is America\u2019s Top Mistress But Far More Powerful Overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each week on <\/span>Atom Insider<\/span>, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. This has been the year of live-action Disney remakes, but <\/span>Maleficent: Mistress of Evil <\/span><\/i>marks one of the first direct sequels to this new era of respun classics. Unless you count <\/span>Alice Through the Looking Glass<\/span><\/i>, which I certainly won\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

This Week\u2019s Top Earner \u2013 \u2018Maleficent: Mistress of Evil\u2019<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Disney\u2019s latest villain-turned-hero take on the original <\/span>Sleeping Beauty <\/span><\/i>pulled in $36 million domestically in its opening weekend. That\u2019s about $9 million short of <\/span>Dumbo <\/span><\/i>from earlier this year. But thanks to strong international numbers, the sorceress supreme managed to push its worldwide total to a solid $154.1 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We can point to a few culprits for this mixed showing. For one thing, Disney released Maleficent: Mistress of Evil<\/a><\/em>\u00a0o<\/span>n fewer screens than both the first <\/span>Maleficent <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>Dumbo <\/span><\/i>with<\/span>\u00a0just 3,790. That\u2019s a lot compared to non-Disney films, of course, but we\u2019ve gotten used to seeing Disney films on this scale reaching well into the mid-4,000s. Additionally, critics have been mostly middling-to-negative with their reviews. (Personally, we liked it<\/a>, but it hasn’t been for everyone.) The film\u2019s ray of hope may lie in its splendid Cinemascore of \u201cA,\u201d which could give it the word of mouth needed to boost those domestic numbers before <\/span>Frozen 2 <\/span><\/i>arrives in late November.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second Place\u00a0 \u2013 \u2018Joker\u2019<\/span><\/h2>\n