'The Circle' Won't Get Past 'Fate of the Furious'
by EG
Be prepared for another quiet frame at the U.S. box office on the last weekend before the summer season kicks off May 5.
The biggest new offering that opens Friday is filmmaker James Ponsoldt's The Circle, an indie thriller about the dangers of the high-tech age that stars Emma Watson, who is coming off her billion-dollar blockbuster Beauty and the Beast, and Tom Hanks. The film is projected to open in the $11 million-$12 million range from 3,163 theaters.
That won't be enough to drive The Fate of the Furious off the road. The latest installment in Universal's action franchise is tipped to earn $25 million or more domestically in its third weekend; globally, The Fate of the Furious will zoom past the $1 billion mark sometime on Friday or Saturday.
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Tom Hanks' last box-office hit was 2016's Sully. Inferno, which was released later that year, was a financial disappointment.