‘Onward’ rules international box office as coronavirus takes toll

Universal’s The Invisible Man on cusp of $100m worldwide.Disney/Pixar’s Onward ruled international weekend box office on an estimated $28m debut as the ongoing spread of coronavirus took its toll amid theatre closures and restrictions across parts of the world.With China out of the game while most of its 70,000 sites are shut down, significant box office drops in South Korea and Japan among others, and Italian theatres reduced to 30% earning power due to government-imposed restrictions that now include the quarantining of roughly one-quarter of the population, revenues are taking a hit.At time of writing it

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