Weekend Box Office: Thor: The Dark World lays the hammer down
Thor: The Dark World topped this weekend's box office with an astounding $86m in its opening weekend. Last weekend's top film, Ender's Game, dropped drastically to 5th with $10m, while Bad Grandpa climbed back up to the second spot with $11.3m. 12 Years a Slave is still chugging along at 7th place, albeit making an extra $2m compared to last weekend. Thor: The Dark World is expected to top next weekend's box office as well with the Oscar-buzzing Nebraska and the not-so-Oscar-buzzing The Best Man Holiday opening this weekend. The Norse god/superhero film will face its first real threat next weekend when The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opens.
The rest of this weekend's box office numbers are below.
1. Thor: The Dark World - $86,109,000
2. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - $11,300,000
3. Free Birds - $11,180,000
4. Last Vegas - $11,100,000
5. Ender's Game - $10,250,000
6. Gravity - $8,405,000
7. 12 Years A Slave - $6,600,000
8. Captain Phillips - $5,800,000
9. About Time - $5,172,000
10. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 - $2,800,000
[via Rentrak]
[Trailer] Thor: The Dark World
http://youtu.be/npvJ9FTgZbM
The latest trailer for Thor: The Dark World was released earlier this morning, and it's looking pretty godly. Chris Hemsworth returns as Thor, the Norse god of lightning, with Natalie Portman returning as his love interest, Jane, after sitting out last summer's The Avengers. Director Alan Taylor (Kill the Poor) has taken up directing duties this time around as Kenneth Branagh decided not to return to Asgard.
Thor: The Dark World takes place a year after the events of The Avengers as the supervillain, Malekith the Accursed (Christopher Eccleston), threatens the Nine Realms, essentially posing a risk that time, space, and reality would cease to exist if he's not stopped. Thusly, Thor turns to his brother/Avengers antagonist, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), for help.
The next in the fantastic Marvel Films lineup will be hitting theaters on November 8th.