{"id":2160777,"date":"2025-11-16T23:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2160777"},"modified":"2025-11-16T23:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:27:21","slug":"now-you-see-me-sequel-steals-n-american-box-office-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/now-you-see-me-sequel-steals-n-american-box-office-win\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Now You See Me&#8217; sequel steals N. American box office win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Now You See Me: Now You Don&#8217;t&#8221; &#8212; the third installment in the crime heist franchise about a group of magicians &#8212; debuted atop the North American box office, besting the Glen Powell-fronted remake of &#8220;The Running Man,&#8221; industry estimates showed Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lionsgate&#8217;s &#8220;Now You See Me&#8221; &#8212; which reunites Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Woody Harrelson as Robin Hood-style illusionists targeting dangerous criminals &#8212; raked in $21.3 million from Friday to Sunday, Exhibitor Relations said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This time out, the original Four Horsemen &#8212; who first appeared on screen in 2013 &#8212; are joined by three younger magicians: Ariana Greenblatt, Dominic Sessa and Justice Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There aren&#8217;t a lot of crime heist series that get to episode 3, simply because it&#8217;s so hard to keep these stories fresh,&#8221; said analyst David A. 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Still, these characters are connecting &#8212; these are very good figures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Paramount&#8217;s &#8220;The Running Man,&#8221; a new take on Stephen King&#8217;s dystopian novel about a murderous game show, opened in second place with $17 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It comes 38 years after a loose adaptation starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;That&#8217;s a long time, and the storyline is showing some wear,&#8221; Gross said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Predator: Badlands&#8221; from Disney&#8217;s 20th Century Studios dropped from first to third place, taking in $13 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The latest installment in the decades-old sci-fi horror franchise stars Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as an\u00a0outcast Predator who is the hero this time, teaming up with an android (Elle Fanning) on an epic journey to prove himself<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Paramount&#8217;s &#8220;Regretting You,&#8221; the latest film adaptation of a Colleen Hoover romantic novel, came in fourth at $4 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And Universal&#8217;s horror sequel &#8220;Black Phone 2,&#8221; once again starring Ethan Hawke as a devilish villain, came in fifth place at $2.7 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rounding out the top 10 were:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Nuremberg&#8221; ($2.6 million)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Keeper&#8221; ($2.5 million)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Sarah&#8217;s Oil&#8221; ($2.3 million)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Chainsaw Man &#8211; The Movie: Reze Arc&#8221; ($1.6 million)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Bugonia&#8221; ($1.6 million)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">bur-sst\/des<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now You See Me: Now You Don&#8217;t&#8221; &#8212; the third installment in the crime heist franchise about a group of magicians &#8212; debuted atop the North American box office, besting the Glen Powell-fronted remake of &#8220;The Running Man,&#8221; industry estimates showed Sunday. 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