‘Arthur The King’ Seizes $825K In Previews; ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ To Reign Supreme With $30M+ Second Weekend – Friday AM Box Office
deadline.comIn a frame that will see Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4 rally with a second weekend take of around $30M (-48%), three wide entries hit cinemas, the biggest being Lionsgate’s Mark Wahlberg canine sports movie Arthur the King with an eye on $8M-$10M at 3,003 locations.
The movie directed by Simon Cellan Jones made $825K in previews last night, which bests the $550K previews made by Wahlberg’s 2018 movie, Instant Family, that movie opening in a very pre-pandemic, pre Thanksgiving period to $14.5M.
Rotten Tomatoes reviews are at 63% fresh, but the portal’s audiences love Arthur the King more at 93%. Based on a true story, pic takes plays during a ten day pro adventure race of 435 miles as Michael Light (Wahlberg) bonds with scrappy street dog Arthur.
Light, desperate for one last chance to win, convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes (Simu Liu, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Ali Suliman) for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican Republic.
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