Godzilla x Kong Domestic Box Office Passes Skull Island To Become Second-Best Monsterverse Movie

Summary Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has made $9.455 million at the domestic box office in its fourth weekend.

This pushes its cumulative domestic total past Kong: Skull Island to become the second highest-grossing of the franchise.

It seems somewhat unlikely that the movie will outgross the No. 1 installment, 2014's Godzilla.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire's domestic total is climbing, pushing it up the all-time domestic chart for the Monsterverse franchise. The Monsterverse, which combines characters from two of history's biggest monster movie franchises, began in 2014 with Gareth Edwards' Godzilla and has since expanded to include five movies and two streaming television shows, with more in development. The new movie, which was directed by Adam Wingard, opened with $80 million, marking the second-best debut of the franchise behind the original installment.

Per Deadline, the Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire box office is projected to close out its fourth weekend in theaters with a 3-day total of $9.455 million at the domestic box office. This would bring its cumulative domestic total to $171.6 million, pushing past the $168 million earned by the franchise's sophomore effort Kong: Skull Island in 2017. With that total, the new sequel has now become the second highest-grossing Monsterverse movie in the domestic market behind the original 2014 Godzilla.

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Source: Deadline