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Box Office: ‘The Monkey’ Drums Up $5.8 Million Opening Day, ‘Captain America’ Gets Second Term on Top
'The Monkey,' Neon and Oz Perkins' follow-up to 'Longlegs,' scored a strong start at the box office, but 'Captain America: Brave New World' will stay on top.
That puts it on track for Neon’s second-biggest opening weekend ever, only falling behind director Osgood Perkins ‘ prior horror film at the banner, last summer’s breakout “Longlegs.” Reviews have been positive for this follow-up, though audiences are mixed with ticketbuyer survey firm Cinema Score logging a “C+.” Horror films skew lower in those polls though; beyond that, “Longlegs” notched the same middling grade before legging out a healthy 3.31x multiplier on its opening weekend. “The Monkey” is a more comical turn for Perkins, adapting a Stephen King story about two brothers (Theo James) who see everyone around them begin to die at the hands of a devilish toy primate. With reviews leaning negative and an alarming Marvel Cinematic Universe low “B-” grade on Cinema Score, it was all eyes on this second frame to see how the comic book adaptation would weather ho-hum buzz.
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