Box Office: April 5-7, 2019: SHAZAM!, PET SEMATARY, DUMBO, & More

Box Office April 5-7, 2019

Shazam! premiered in the Number One spot at the box office over the weekend with $53.4 Million.

Pet Sematary premiered in the Second Place with $25 Million.

Dumbo was Third at the box office over the weekend with $18.2 Million.

Us was Fourth with $13.8 Million for $152.3 Million so far. Worldwide, Us has made $216.5 Million so far.

Captain Marvel was Fifth at the box office over the weekend with $12.6 Million for $374.1 Million so far. Worldwide, Captain Marvel has made $1.037 Billion so far.

The Best of Enemies, Five Feet Apart, Unplanned, Wonder Park, and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World rounded out the Top Ten respectively.

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

Shazam! is a 2019 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Produced by New Line Cinema and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the seventh installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Directed by David F. Sandberg from a screenplay by Henry Gayden, and a story by Gayden and Darren Lemke, the film stars Asher Angel as Billy Batson, a teenage boy who can transform into an adult superhero, played by Zachary Levi. Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Djimon Hounsou also star. It is the first live-action film version of the character since the 1941 serial Adventures of Captain Marvel (the character’s original name).

Pet Sematary is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer and written by Jeff Buhler, from a screen story by Matt Greenberg. It is the second adaptation of the novel of the same name by Stephen King, after the 1989 film. The film stars Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, and John Lithgow, and follows a family that discovers a mysterious graveyard in the woods behind their new home.

The Best of Enemies is a 2019 American drama film directed and written by Robin Bissell. It is based on the book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South by Osha Gray Davidson, which focuses on the rivalry between civil rights activist Ann Atwater and Ku Klux Klan leader C. P. Ellis. The film stars Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay, Anne Heche, Wes Bentley, Bruce McGill, John Gallagher Jr., and Nick Searcy.

Next week sees the release of: Shazam!, Pet Sematary, The Best of Enemies, and a plethora of other mainstream and independent films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Shazam! will be Number One at the box office.

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