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Monday 26 august 2019
'Angel Has Fallen' tops box office with $21.3 million debut

By JAKE COYLE ment "London Has Fallen."
NEW YORK (AP) — "Angel The film series stars Gerard
Has Fallen" easily topped Butler as a Secret Service
the box office with a $21.3 agent protecting the U.S.
million debut, according to president played by Mor-
studio estimates Sunday, as gan Freeman. In "Angel
the action sequel became Has Fallen," Butler's agent
the latest mid-budget re- is wrongly accused of try-
lease to find modest suc- ing to assassinate the presi-
cess in the often quiet late dent.
summer. Going back to 2013's
The Lionsgate film beat ex- "Olympus Has Fallen," the
pectations going into the franchise has been a quiet-
weekend, opening similarly ly consistent performer, tak-
to the previous 2016 install- ing in roughly $200 million

This image released by Lionsgate shows Lance Reddick, left, and Gerard Butler in "Angel Has
Fallen," directed by Ric Roman Waugh.
Associated Press

worldwide each time. "An- continued playability of get tentpole releases.
gel Has Fallen," produced "Angel Has Fallen" through That's given some room
for about $40 million by Mil- the last weeks of summer. for recent successes such
lennium Films, is poised for "That's a great sign that the as Universal's comedy hit
a similar course, opening movie is going to be the- "Good Boys," which slid
just shy of the $21.6 million aters for a long time," Spitz to second with $11.8 mil-
"London Has Fallen" debut. said. "Over-performing this lion. Last week, it became
David Spitz, president of weekend and exit polls the first R-rated comedy in
domestic distribution for suggesting we're going to more than three years to
Lionsgate, pointed to the have a nice long runway is land at No.1. And the Li-
film's A-minus CinemaScore terrific." onsgate-distributed "Scary
and 94% audience score Late August is known as a Stories to Tell in the Dark"
on Rotten Tomatoes (far sleepy period at the box of- has also flourished in Au-
better than the 39% critic fice, but it's also one of the gust, taking in $50.5 million
score) as good word-of- few parts of the calendar in three weeks including $6
mouth harbingers for the relatively light on big-bud- million this weekend.q

Math whiz & elderly fight city hall in

'The Helpline'

by Katherine Collette Senior Citizens Helpline, but
Being an expert in math- Germaine is determined to
ematics is a useful skill in make her mark at City Hall.
extremely small circles. Life The mayor notices Ger-
gets complicated for the maine's drive to function in
math genius when you lose a manner that is both effec-
your job and are forced to tive and efficient. The way
find traditional work in the she handles the people on
real world. In her debut the other end of the phone
novel, "The Helpline," Kath- line is very black and white.
erine Collette follows an And that's exactly the kind
eccentric woman with zero of person the mayor needs
people skills who reluctant- for her special project.
ly finds herself in the arms of A parking lot is the cause of
a supportive community. a feud between the senior
Germaine Johnson loves center and the incredibly
math, Sudoku puzzles and handsome Don Thomas,
This cover image released structure. When she loses who manages the golf club
by Atria Books shows "The
Helpline," by Katherine Col- her job at an insurance next door. The mayor is on
lette. company, Germaine is Don's side, therefore, Ger-
Associated Press forced to take whatever maine must find a solution
position she's offered. Not to rid the town of the dilapi-
By LINCEE RAY many mathematicians dated center using logistics
"The Helpline" (Atria Books), have answered calls at the and numbers.q