“Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” led the domestic box office over the weekend after it hit theaters on Friday.
The latest film in the ghostbusting franchise scored $45.2 million on its opening weekend thanks to the multi-generational appeal of the film, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
It just barely beat out “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” the last entry in the series, which came out in 2021 after theaters had been closed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and movie companies were struggling to get audiences back into seats.
At the time, “Afterlife” had an opening weekend of $44 million. “Frozen Empire” cost $100 million to make compared to the 2021 film which cost $75 million.
Overseas, the latest film earned another $16.4 million during its debut weekend.
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