This DC comics feature film, where Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays Teth Adam, a former slave endowed with superpowers just released from a very long prison sentence and who finds a transformed and hostile universe, garnered 18.5 million dollars according to the specialist firm Exhibitor Relations.
Internationally, this derivative of "Shazam!"
(2019) has now raised a whopping $182 million.
Coming in second place, the cartoon "One Piece Film: Red", based on the universe of the very popular eponymous manga, amassed 9.5 million.
The romantic comedy "Ticket To Paradise", in which Julia Roberts and George Clooney play ex-spouses who put aside their differences and travel to Bali to try to prevent the marriage of their daughter, considered to be hasty, appears in the third place with $8.5 million in revenue.
Psychological horror film "Smile" came in at number four with four million, bringing its total North American gross to nearly $100 million.
The film tells the disturbing story of a therapist (Sosie Bacon) who begins to lose touch with reality after witnessing a horrific event involving a patient.
Here's the rest of the top 10:
6. "Enzo the Croco" (3.4 million)
7. "The Banshees of Inisherin" (2 million)
8. "Till" (1.9 million)
9. "Halloween Ends" (1.4 million)
10. "Terrify 2" (1.2 million)
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