Box office Top 20: 'Alien: Covenant' dethrones 'Guardians 2'
Box office Top 20: 'Alien:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ridley Scott's space horror film Alien:
Covenant scared reigning box office champ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 out of the No. 1 spot over the weekend — but just barely.
Covenant, a sequel to 2012's Prometheus, opened with $36.2 million, pushing Guardians 2 to second place with $34.7 million in its third weekend in theaters.
The teenage romance "Everything, Everything," meanwhile, bowed in third place with $11.7 million.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:
The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall, Sony Pictures Classics, $565,664, 373 locations, $1,517 average, $2,273,140, six weeks.
"The Circle," STX Entertainment, $451,218, 647 locations, $697 average, $20,030,002, four weeks.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.