‘Monster Trucks’ Crashes, Burns in Tough Start for Paramount
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The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend was a disappointment for Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures and a triumph for 20th Century Fox.
Paramount’s “Monster Trucks,” a $125 million production that might have spawned a series, opened with weekend sales of $10.5 million in North American theaters, researcher ComScore Inc. estimated in an e-mailed statement Sunday. Fox’s “Hidden Figures,” a film about three black women whose scientific work helped launch John Glenn into orbit, generated an estimated $20.5 million to place first for a second straight weekend.