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Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish’s comedy Night School laughed its way to the top of the box-office chart, beating the overall comedy curse in opening to $28 million. Night School scored the best debut for a broad comedy since Girls Trip. Another exception to the comedy slump is Crazy Rich Asians, …

Eli Roth’s big-screen adaptation of the beloved kids book The House With a Clock in Its Walls starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchett, debuted to a better-than-expected $26.9 million from 3,592 theaters, easily topping the chart. The pre-Halloween offering follows a young orphan (Owen Vacarro) who goes to live in his …

Shane Black’s reboot The Predator led a ho-hum weekend at the North American box office with $24 million, enough to top the chart but coming in behind expectations. Overseas, the $88 million Fox movie opened to an even more disappointing $30.7 million from 72 markets for a lackluster global start of …

The supernatural horror pic The Nun opened to a heavenly $53.5 million from 3,876 theaters to score the second-biggest September debut of all time in North America, not adjusted for inflation. The R-rated spinoff also boasted the biggest opening of any title in the Conjuring franchise. The fifth installment, from New …

Warner Bros.’ Crazy Rich Asians dominated the Labor Day box-office picnic, earning an estimated $28 million to boast the best gross for the long holiday weekend in more than a decade and the third-best of all time, not adjusted for inflation. To boot, the Jon M. Chu-directed rom-com danced past the …

Crazy Rich Asians soared to $25 million in its second outing — almost as much as the rom-com earned in its first weekend and representing one of the best holds in modern history for a wide release summer title. The big headline overseas was Disney and Marvel’s Ant-Man and the …

Jon M. Chu’s groundbreaking romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians led the weekend nuptials with a three-day North American debut of $25.2 million and five-day opening of $34 million. The film — the first Hollywood studio pic to feature an all-Westernized Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club 25 years ago — scored …

Warner Bros.’ The Meg blew past all expectations in its North American debut over the weekend, swimming to $44.5 million from 4,118 theaters. The shark pic marks Warner Bros.’ biggest domestic opening of the year so far, while debuting to $96.8 million overseas for a global bite of $141.3 million, supplanting …

Paramount’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout fell just 43 percent in its sophomore outing to $35 million from 4,395 North American theaters over the weekend. That’s well ahead of the $25 million earned by Disney’s Winnie the Pooh live-action/CGI effort Christopher Robin from 3,602 locations in its launch. Fallout is a major …

The latest Mission: Impossible movie took the top spot in its box-office debut over the weekend. Paramount and Skydance’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout opened to $61.5 million from 4,306 theaters in North America, a franchise-high and the second-best of Cruise’s career behind 2005’s War of the Worlds ($64.9 million), not adjusted for …