‘Fantastic Beasts’ tops the US box office

Picture “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” Was less than a “wonderful” introduction To us This weekend, at least by universal standards “Harry Potter”Earns approximately. $ 43 million In three days, this Sunday (17) was announced by the special website Exhibitor Relations.

Ticket sales for the third film in the “Fantastic Beasts” story, starring Brazilian actress Maria Fernando Condito, were the lowest in all 11 films in the “Harry Potter” universe, despite leading the box office US outlet this weekend. Variety, another specialty medium.

“Fantastic Beasts’ success in Harry Potter can never be sustained,” said David A. Snyder, consulting expert at Franchise Entertainment Research. “This is a unique event for a generation,” he pointed out.

“Harry Potter” began to lose a part of the brilliance and gravity of the universe because the writer J.K. Rowling began to face criticism for her statements about the gender and gender identity of some of the characters.

Cross, however, argues that the Warner Bros.-produced film series has always had solid performance overseas and should follow the same path in this distribution, which has raised production costs by about $ 200 million due to the Govt-19 epidemic.

Paramount’s Sonic 2: The Movie peaked at $ 30 million at the box office in the US and Canada over the weekend, while Paramount’s The Last City was $ 6 million. Third place with 5 million.