VIACA - 'Free Guy' prevails over pups with another $19 million in second week
Free Guy (NYSE:DIS) kept making real money at the box office, grossing another $18.8 million in its second week of release to lead releases at domestic theaters. That was $5.8 million better than PAW Patrol: The Movie (VIAC, VIACA), which made a late run at perhaps taking the weekend crown by adding theaters on Friday, to open on 3,184 screens. But that film faced the challenges of drawing mostly unvaccinated children to theaters, and also released simultaneously on the ViacomCBS streaming service Paramount+ - so it's coming off as a relative win and not a dog. PAW Patrol: The Movie grossed $13 million, and Free Guy was expected to fall off to that level too. Instead, Disney's Ryan Reynolds film only dropped 34% of its business week-to-week, and now has a cumulative gross of $58.8 million domestically (and $111.9 million worldwide). In a weekend relatively full of new releases, other
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'Free Guy' prevails over pups with another $19 million in second week