Liam Neeson tops field workplace for second time amid coronavirus pandemic

By ANI
WASHINGTON: Hollywood star Liam Neeson is proving to be the king of the North American field workplace all through the pandemic.

According to Fox News, the 68-year-old star’s film ‘Honest Thief’ shot to the highest of the field workplace in October amid a slew of theatre closures that prompted a number of film studios to postpone their main blockbuster releases till at the least 2021, and now, the motion thriller ‘The Marksman,’ has additionally reached the highest of the charts.

According to Variety, the movie debuted at No. 1 with USD 3.2 million in ticket gross sales and is anticipated to shut out the Martin Luther King Jr. vacation weekend with USD 3.7 million throughout 1,975 areas. That means it is a possible contender to lastly unseat ‘Wonder Woman: 1984’ in its third week in theatres.

As reported by Fox News, the Gal Gadot-led superhero film stunned everybody by performing properly on the muted winter field workplace regardless of additionally releasing at no cost to HBO Max subscribers in a bid to domesticate viewership at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has made going to the theatre a troublesome prospect for many Americans.

However, as Variety notes, alongside movies like ‘Wonder Woman: 1984,’ ‘Honest Thief’ and Robert De Niro’s ‘The War With Grandpa,’ ‘The Marksman’ joins the membership of lowest-grossing field workplace toppers in trendy historical past due to solely 65 per cent of theatres within the U.S. being open for enterprise.

Currently, ‘Wonder Woman: 1984’ is in a little bit of a race for a second in the course of the vacation weekend with ‘The Croods: A New Age’ edging near its anticipated complete of USD 2.6 million. Meanwhile, ‘News of the World’ with Tom Hanks is prone to end fourth.

Fox News reviews that ‘The Marksman’ sees Neeson enjoying an Arizona rancher who turns into the unlikely protector of a younger Mexican boy who’s being pursued by a cartel meaning to assassinate him.