‘Now You See Me 3’ Snags No. 1 at Box Office With $21.3 Million Opening

As theaters await the end-of-year bonanza set to start next weekend with “Wicked: For Good,” Lionsgate’s “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” is tiding them over with a $21.3 million opening weekend, beating Paramount’s “The Running Man” for the No. 1 spot.

That gives Lionsgate its first No. 1 since January, when “Den of Thieves: Pantera” and “Flight Risk” topped the charts during a sluggish post-holiday period. Before inflation adjustment, this opening weekend is on par with the $22 million opening of “Now You See Me 2” in 2016.

“Now You See Me 3” is also the second $20 million-plus opening for Lionsgate this year alongside the “John Wick” spinoff, “Ballerina.” Like that film,…