Recent movie about a spy who shows Angelina Jolie "Salt" failed to seize the crown of the North American box offcie "Inception" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and growing stronger than ever before in the second week.
According to studio estimates issued Sunday, "Inception" pocketed 43.5 million U.S. dollars for three days starting Friday, while the "Salt" was in 2nd position with the acquisition of 36.6 million U.S. dollars, as quoted from Reuters.
At the international level, "Inception" is at number two with 56.7 million U.S. dollars from 38 markets, behind "Toy Story 3" - which earned 62 million U.S. dollars from 43 countries.
Intellectuals have been predicting "Salt" may earn 40 million dollars in the United States and Canada, although the distributor claimed the opening of Columbia Pictures is in line with estimates.
Approximate three-day represents a large deterioration of the total 50 million U.S. dollars earned during the opening of each of the last great movie of Angelina, "Wanted" and "Mr.. And Mrs. Smith.".
Angelina won 20 million dollars for "Salt", a film about Russian spy who make the United States prepares to kneel. The role of high-energy action was originally planned to bring Tom Cruise, who instead drove to fill the box office through the "Knight and Day."
With a relatively moderate budget amounted to 100 million U.S. dollars, "Salt" was directed by Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce and his fellow players and Chiwetel Ojiofor Liev Schreiber. Columbia Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp., States are 53 percent female audience the film "Salt".
"Salt" is expected to collect most of their money from overseas. The film with a promising advance in India and Taiwan, said Columbia Pictures, and will be expanded to Japan, Russia, South Korea, Brazil at the end of next week.