{"id":24154,"date":"2013-09-09T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=24154"},"modified":"2013-09-09T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:28:07","slug":"riddick-box-office-tops-the-weekend-besting-the-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=24154","title":{"rendered":"‘Riddick’ Box Office Tops The Weekend, Besting ‘The Butler’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Riddick”<\/em> is seeing light at the box office.<\/p>\n

The sci-fi thriller starring Vin Diesel <\/b>as an intergalactic criminal with built-in night vision debuted in first place with $18.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Riddick<\/em>” is the third installment in the series, following the $11.6 million debut of 2000’s “Pitch Black”<\/em> and the $24.3 million launch of 2004’s “The Chronicles of Riddick.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Riddick,” which finds the alien anti-hero stranded and pursued by bounty hunters on a hostile world, served as a passion project for Diesel<\/b> and series writer-director David Twohy<\/b>. After the studio originally passed on funding a third chapter, the pair acquired the rights to the character from Universal and independently secured their own film financing.<\/p>\n

“Riddick”<\/em> also fared well internationally, bringing in an additional $7.4 million in 22 markets such as the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

“Lee Daniels’ The Butler”<\/em> fell to second place with $8.9 million in its fourth weekend at the box office, bringing its total domestic haul to $91.9 million. The Spanish-language comedy “Instructions Not Included”<\/em> earned third place in its expanded second weekend with $8.1 million, giving it a total of $20.1 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Riddick” is seeing light at the box office. The sci-fi thriller starring Vin Diesel as an intergalactic criminal with built-in night vision debuted in first place with $18.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Riddick” is the third installment in the series, following the $11.6 million debut of 2000’s “Pitch Black” and the $24.3 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}