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A30 PEOPLE & ARTS
Tuesday 8 January 2019

‘Aquaman’ continues reign, but ‘Escape Room’ sneaks into 2 nd

By LINDSEY BAHR in its second weekend,
Associated Press adding $5.8 million to take
LOS ANGELES (AP) — seventh place.
“Aquaman” is still the A leading nominee at the
champ at the box office Golden Globes, “Vice,”
three weeks in, but the starring Christian Bale as
high-concept thriller “Es- the former Vice President,
cape Room” also drew has now earned $29.8 mil-
some substantial crowds in lion, but still has an uphill
its debut weekend. climb to even meet its $60
Warner Bros. on Sunday million production budget.
says that “Aquaman” has In limited release, the Ruth
added an estimated $30.7 Bader Ginsburg biopic “On
million from over 4,000 the Basis of Sex” contin-
North American theaters. ued to perform well, with
That brings its domestic $1.7 million from 112 loca-
grosses to nearly $260 mil- tions, before expanding
lion. The DC comics film nationwide next week-
starring Jason Momoa has end. And the Bollywood
had a tidal wave of suc- film “Simmba,” playing in
cesses internationally too. 292 locations, grossed $1
Worldwide it has made million, bringing its North
$940.7 million, making it by This image released by Sony Pictures shows Deborah Ann Woll, clockwise from left, Taylor Russell, American total to $4.1 mil-
far the highest grossing film Jay Ellis, Logan Miller and Nick Dodani in “Escape Room.” lion.
in the modern DC Extended Associated Press Six days into the new year
Universe slate (No. 2 is “Bat- mated $18 million in ticket “Movies that open in the with $15.8 million. The nos- and coming off of a record
man v Superman: Dawn of sales — double its produc- early part of January don’t talgic musical has earned 2018, the box office over-
Justice with $873.6 million). tion budget. The film stars get a lot of respect, but this $138.7 million domestically all is running a little behind
Even with the slew of holi- Taylor Russell, Deborah Ann was a great profit maker,” and is competing for four (5 percent) where the to-
day releases, from block- Woll and Logan Miller and said Comscore senior me- Golden Globe Awards Sun- tals were last year, when
busters to awards darlings, was directed by Adam Ro- dia analyst Paul Derga- day evening. Globally, it’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Sony’s PG-13 rated thriller bitel. It got mixed reviews rabedian. “Sony took per- made $257.9 million. “Spi- and “Jumanji: Welcome to
“Escape Room” managed from critics and audiences, fect advantage of what der-Man: Into the Spider- the Jungle” were still print-
to sneak into second place but that didn’t seem to is typically a marketplace Verse” took fourth place ing money. But that could
in its first weekend in the- matter when it came down devoid of newcomers and with $13 million and “Bum- all change when “Glass”
aters generating an esti- to the bottom line. made box office hay out of blebee” rounded out the opens on Jan. 18. The M.
it.” Disney’s “Mary Poppins top five with $12.8 million. Night Shyamalan film could
Returns” landed in third The Dick Cheney biopic be a January record-
place in its third weekend “Vice” fell only 25 percent breaker.q

Pegi Young, musician and

activist, dead at 66

Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Pegi
Young, who with fellow
musician and then-hus-
band Neil Young helped
found the Bridge School
for children with speech
and physical impairments,
has died.
Young died of cancer
Tuesday in California, ac-
cording to spokeswoman
Michelle Gutenstein-Hinz.
She was 66. Additional de- In this April 17, 2007 file photo, singer Pegi Young is
tails about her death were photographed in New York’s Central Park.
not immediately avail- Associated Press
able. next three decades, the Young told speakersin-
Pegi Young first con- Youngs helped stage all- code.com in 2016. “It’s
ceived of the California- star concert benefits, with kind of amazing that the
based school in 1986 af- guest performers includ- school has not only sus-
ter she and her husband ing Bruce Springsteen, Da- tained itself for all these
struggled to educate vid Bowie and Tom Petty. years by way of the con-
their son Ben, born with “I look at it with a great cert, of course, but how
cerebral palsy. Over the deal of satisfaction,” Pegi it’s grown and evolved.q