Despite the scorn of critics and its modest, penny-pinching budgets, the Saw franchise has always been one of Hollywood’s stealthiest and most surprising success stories.
And now, thanks to Spiral’s roughly $4.6 million sophomore frame, which was good enough to hold the top spot in North America, the series just surpassed the $1 billion mark in total global ticket sales.
Still, the biggest box-office story of the weekend came from overseas, where Universal’s latest Fast and the Furious sequel, F9, raked $162 million in its fuel-injected bow, with the lion’s share of loot coming from China.But let’s start on the domestic front, shall we? With no new major releases in the mix, Spiral, the latest R-rated Saw installment from Lionsgate (starring Chris Rock and Samuel l.
Jackson) repeated at No.
1 at the domestic box office, scaring up just a hair under $4.6 million in its second weekend.
Even
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