Spider-Man put up a good fight, but the Autobots came out on top.After an unusually close box office battle, Paramount’s “Transformers-Rise-of-the-Beasts-2022-movie-posters/”>Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” pulled ahead of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” debuting in first place to $60.5 million from 3,678 theaters.
Sony’s animated “Spider-Verse” sequel still managed a mighty second weekend, landing in second place with $55.4 million from 4,332 theaters.Thanks to the better-than-expected turnouts for those films, box office returns from the first few weeks of summer (May 1 to June 11) are up 5% from 2022, according to Comscore.
Analysts hope that popcorn season is able to stay strong as blockbuster-hopefuls like “The Flash” and Pixar’s “Elemental” join the fray in the coming days.Initial ticket sales for “Rise of the Beasts,” which is the seventh installment in the live-action “Transformers” franchise, were notably better than the prior two entries, 2018’s “Bumblebee” ($21.6 million) and 2017’s “The Last Knight” ($44.68 million).
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