'Detective Pikachu' just scored the biggest opening ever for a video game movie.
opened with solid $58 million this weekend. That gives it a promising 2.8x weekend multiplier, even as it earned 9.8% of its opening weekend on Thursday night. Yes, I was hoping it would break out bigger, and yes the soft-ish $41 million opening in China raises an eyebrow or two, but Legendary and Warner Bros.’ $150 million-budgeted comic fantasy just scored the biggest opening weekend ever for a video game movie.
The film skewed comparatively young , meaning that WB will have to hope that non-chaperone adults decide to check it out over the next few weeks, ideally before WB and Legendary'sFor reference, the live-action/animated flick, a kind ofdetective flick , stars Ryan Reynolds as the voice of the title character and Justin Smith as the human protagonist who teams with the Pokémon to solve his father’s murder.
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