‘Big Hero 6’ tops weekend box office
Posted November 9, 2014 6:41 pm.
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Big Hero 6, Walt Disney Company’s animated superhero film featuring a flying robot, clocked $56.2 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales to lead the weekend box office for the weekend ending November 9, topping director Christopher Nolan’s space adventure, Interstellar.
Inspired by a Marvel comic of the same name, Big Hero 6 is set in a fictional futuristic metropolis called Sanfransokyo, in which a 14-year-old computer whiz kid fashions a team of superheroes out of students from a university robotics lab.
With the help of a waddling, 6-foot-tall personal healthcare robot called Baymax, the team defeats a masked villain who harnesses the power of microbots to wreck havoc on the city.
Interstellar, starring Matthew McConaughey, opened on Wednesday and recorded $50 million over the three days from Friday through Sunday, and $52.2 million over its five-day run.
Co-starring Anne Hathaway, Interstellar features a team of space travelers who move through a wormhole in search of a habitable planet after blight and dust storms render Earth unlivable.
If the final figures hold up, it would be only the fourth time in history that two new films had hit the $50 million mark on the same debut weekend, the last time being June 2013 with Monsters University and World War Z, box office tracking firm Rentrak said.
Gone Girl, director David Fincher’s hit starring Ben Affleck as a husband suspected of murdering his wife, was third with $6.1 million, according to estimates from Rentrak. It has taken in more than $145 million since opening on Oct. 3.
