Godzilla tops US box office with $93 million
Godzilla has topped the US box office with the second biggest opening of the year so far, beating The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s debut.
Godzilla 3D took $93.2 million, putting it just behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which took $95 million when it opened in April.
The new take on the 1954 Japanese original stars Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen.
Godzilla has topped the US box office with the second biggest opening of the year so far
Last week’s top film Neighbors was in second place with Spider-Man third.
Neighbors, starring Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne, earned $26 million in its second week at the US and Canada box office.
Andrew Garfield’s second outing as Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 took $17 million, according to estimates from Rentrak.
In fourth place was new entry Million Dollar Arm, a Disney sports drama starring Jon Hamm, while Cameron Diaz’s comedy The Other Woman was in fifth.
North America box office:
- Godzilla – $93.2 million
- Neighbors – $26 million
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – $17 million
- Million Dollar Arm – $11 million
- The Other Woman – $6.3 million
- Heaven Is for Real – $4.4 million
- Rio 2 – $4 million
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier – $3.8 million
- Legend of Oz – $2 million
- Mom’s Night Out – $1.9 million
Source: Rentrak
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