‘Thor’ rules again at North American box office

LOS ANGELES, July 18 — Marvel’s latest superhero flickpounded opponents for a second straight week to top the North American box office with an estimated US$46 million haul, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported yesterday.stars a muscle-clad, self-parodying Chris Hemsworth as the space viking who wields the mallet Mjolnir, but also finds himself pining for his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster , whose help he enlists to battle god butcher Gorr .

, which scored second spot for the second straight week after a phenomenal opening weekend over the July 4th holiday.franchise about the reformed super-villain Gru and his yellow Minions took in US$26 million in the Friday-to-Sunday period., the adaptation of Delia Owens’ novel about an abandoned girl who grows up in marshland of 1950s and 60s North Carolina and, at a murder trial years later, looks back on that rough and violent upbringing. The take was US$17 million.

“This is a very good opening for a movie that combines young adult romance and suspense crime drama. Where the Crawdads Sing’s weekend number is above average, in spite of weak reviews,” said analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.Dropping from third to fourth was Paramount’s, the crowd-pleasing sequel to the original 1986 film that once again features Tom Cruise as cocky US Navy test pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.

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