The latest installment of James Bond's adventures,
Dying Can Wait
, kicked off on an Aston Martin DB5, of course, to take No. 1 at the North American box office with $ 55.3 million, according to figures released Monday by the specialist firm Exhibitor Relations.
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In the film, Daniel Craig's final participation in the role of the famous British spy created by the writer Ian Fleming, comes out of retirement to face his "
best
" enemies: Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), the supreme leader of the Mafia and terrorist organization Specter and especially the dreaded and disturbing Safin (Rami Malek).
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
, produced by Sony, comes in second, pocketing $ 31.8 million for its second week of operation, for a tidy total of 141 million in two weeks. The film is about how an investigative journalist, played by Briton Tom Hardy, who is given superpowers by an alien parasite, tries to stop a serial killer (Woody Harrelson) who escaped from prison after merging with another extraterrestrial parasite.
The Addams Family 2: A Hell's Spree
, The Adventures of the Terrifying and Crazy Family, takes third place on the podium with 10.1 million. Following in fourth position
Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings
, the first of Marvel studios to have an Asian director (Destin Daniel Cretton) and a cast also dominated by Asian stars, which amassed 4.3 million.
Then
Many Saints Of Newark - A Tale of the Sopranos
, which traces the youthful years of famous mafioso Tony Soprano, from the cult eponymous television series, came in fifth, scoring just 1.4 million in week two.
The action comedy
Free Guy
retains sixth place in the charts for its ninth week on screens, with $ 1.2 million for a total of nearly $ 120 million since its release.
Finally, and in the other places of the top 10, we find in 7th place,
Cher Evan Hansen
(1 million dollars);
at 8th,
Lamb,
(1 million);
in 9th position -
Candyman
(710,000);
and finally in 10th place,
Jungle Cruise
”(215,000).