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Lilo & Stitch' tops North America box office again
Film raked in more than six times its budget. PHOTO: File Disney's family-friendly Lilo & Stitch, a live-action remake of the 2002 animated film, won the North American box office for a second week in a row, taking in another $63 million, industry estimates showed Sunday. So far, its worldwide take is at a whopping $610 million, Exhibitor Relations said. Maia Kealoha (as Lilo), Hannah Waddingham, Courtney B Vance and Zach Galifianakis star, while Chris Sanders again provides the voice of the chaos-creating blue alien Stitch. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – the latest, and ostensibly last, in the hugely successful Tom Cruise spy thriller series based on a 1960s TV show – took second place with $27.3 million in the United States and Canada. The Paramount film has made another $231 million overseas, which should help offset its massive production budget, reportedly at $400 million. Debuting in a disappointing third place was Sony's Karate Kid: Legends, a sequel featuring Ralph Macchio – – the star of the original 1984 classic – – and action flick icon Jackie Chan, along with Ben Wang in the title role. It made $21 million at the domestic box office and another $26 million overseas. "Legends is trying to invigorate the story with a new Kid – – again – – but business is not strong," said David A Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. In fourth place was Warner Bros and New Line's horror film Final Destination: Bloodlines, at $10.8 million. And another horror film, Bring Her Back, debuted in fifth place with $7.1 million. "This is a very good opening for an original horror movie that cost only $4.5 million to make," said Gross. Rounding out the top 10 were: Sinners ($5.2 million), Thunderbolts ($4.8 million), Friendship ($2.6 million), The Last Rodeo ($2.1 million) and J-Hope Hope on the Stage – live tour broadcast ($940,000). afp
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27-03-2025
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Disney unveils 'Avengers: Doomsday' cast
Film will wrap up storylines in a grand finale. Photo: File Disney's Marvel Studios on Wednesday revealed the bumper cast of its next Avengers film, six years after Avengers: Endgame became the highest-grossing movie of all time. Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are among those surprisingly returning to the superhero roster for Avengers: Doomsday, out May 2026. They will join a raft of widely expected fan favorites, including Robert Downey Jr and Chris Hemsworth, a viral five-hour-long video announcement confirmed. The Marvel superhero films are comfortably the most lucrative franchise in Hollywood history, having collectively made more than $30 billion. As its title suggests, Avengers: Doomsday is intended to be an ensemble blockbuster event in the style of the franchise's pinnacle, 2019's Avengers: Endgame, which grossed $2.8 billion. Endgame was briefly the highest-grossing movie in history, before the original Avatar reclaimed its crown with a theatrical re-release. Like Endgame, Doomsday will again team up characters and wrap up storylines in a grand finale to more than a dozen preceding Marvel films. While several returning superheroes – and the actors playing them – had been previously announced, Marvel revealed the whole set in a live-streamed video. Surprises included octogenarian thespians Stewart and McKellen, who previously appeared in early X-Men films but were thought to have been written out or recast. Returning favourites include Hemsworth's Thor, Paul Rudd's Ant Man, and Tom Hiddleston's Loki. Actors' names were written on the backs of Hollywood-style directors' chairs, with a camera slowly panning from one to the next every 10 to 15 minutes until ending with Downey Jr appearing in-person. Marvel previously announced that the Oscar winner will return to the franchise as the villainous Doctor Doom. "It all leads to Doom. #AvengersDoomsday is now in production," said an accompanying message. Wednesday's viral unveiling demonstrates how key to Marvel and Disney the success of Avengers: Doomsday – and 2027 follow-up Avengers: Secret Wars – will be. The video was watched nearly four million times in its first seven hours. afp
