{"id":6444,"date":"2011-05-09T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2011-05-09T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:00:43","slug":"thor-hammers-box-office-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6444","title":{"rendered":"\f&#8217;Thor&#8217; Hammers Box Office Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; The God of Thunder reigned at the North American box office as &#8220;Thor&#8221; became the latest Marvel comic book superhero to leap to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>According to studio estimates issued Sunday, &#8220;Thor&#8221; sold about $66 million worth of tickets during its first three days of release across the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The opening was in line with industry forecasts in the $60 million to $70 million range, and marked a strong start for a non-sequel and for the lucrative summer movie-going period.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend&#8217;s North American champion, &#8220;Fast Five,&#8221; slipped to No. 2 with $32.5 million, but it replaced &#8220;Thor&#8221; as the top choice overseas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jumping the Broom&#8221; opened at No. 3 with $13.7 million, doubling its $6.6 million production cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; The God of Thunder reigned at the North American box office as &#8220;Thor&#8221; became the latest Marvel comic book superhero to leap to the big screen. According to studio estimates issued Sunday, &#8220;Thor&#8221; sold about $66 million worth of tickets during its first three days of release across the United States and [&hellip;]<\/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-6444","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\/6444","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=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}