Box Office: April 19-21, 2019: THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA, SHAZAM!, BREAKTHROUGH, & More

Box Office April 19-21, 2019

The Curse of La Llorona premiered in the Number One spot at the box office over the weekend with $26.5 Million.

Shazam! was Second at the box office with $17.3 Million for $121.3 Million so far. Worldwide, Shazam has made $322.8 Million.

Breakthrough premiered in Third Place at the box office over the weekend with $11.1 Million.

Captain Marvel was Fourth with $9.1 Million for $400 Million so far. Worldwide, Captain Marvel has made $1.089 Billion.

Little was Fifth at the box office over the weekend with $8.4 Million.

Dumbo, Pet Sematary, Missing Link, Us, and Hellboy rounded out the Top Ten respectively.

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

The Curse of La Llorona (also known as The Curse of the Weeping Woman in some markets) is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, in his directorial debut, and written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. It is the sixth installment in The Conjuring Universe. Based on the Mexican folklore of La Llorona, the film stars Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz and Patricia Velásquez, and follows a mother in 1970s Los Angeles who must save her children from a ghost who is trying to steal them away.

Breakthrough is a 2019 American Christian drama film directed by Roxann Dawson and released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through 20th Century Fox. It is written by Grant Nieporte, based on the Christian novel The Impossible, an account of true events written by Joyce Smith with Ginger Kolbaba. The film stars Chrissy Metz, Josh Lucas, Topher Grace, Mike Colter, Marcel Ruiz, Sam Trammel, and Dennis Haysbert with a cameo by contemporary Christian artist Phil Wickham. Basketball player Stephen Curry is executive producer.

Next week sees the release of: Avengers: Endgame and The White Crow. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Avengers: Endgame will be Number One at the box office.

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