{"id":93398,"date":"2019-05-12T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/pokemon_detective_pikachu_shocks_the_competition_in_its_opening_weekend"},"modified":"2019-05-12T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T16:45:00","slug":"pokemon-detective-pikachu-shocks-the-competition-in-its-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/12\/pokemon-detective-pikachu-shocks-the-competition-in-its-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Detective Pikachu Shocks The Competition In Its Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f6ff8fdb90f21\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f6ff8fdb90f21\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/pokemon_detective_pikachu_shocks_the_competition_in_its_opening_weekend\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_gfnKs7P7qs?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Warner Bros. and Legendary\u2019s live-action film, Detective Pikachu, has defied the video game movie curse at the North American box office in its opening weekend, collecting a total of $58 million when it launched across 4,202 venues. Disney and Marvel\u2019s all-star heroes in Avengers: Endgame managed to withstand the pocket monster assault, raking in $65 million in their third weekend in theatres. Locally \u2013 and not calculating inflation \u2013 this makes Detective Pikachu the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/scottmendelson\/2019\/05\/12\/box-office-pokemon-detective-pikachu-nabs-record-58-million-weekend\/#4f1af2973681\">biggest ever<\/a> opening weekend for a video game movie, earning $11 million more than the 2001 Tomb Raider movie, starring Angelina Jolie.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of North American cinemas, Detective Pikachu made $103 million across 62 international territories. China was the movie&#8217;s second-biggest audience, bringing in a total of $40 million, and the United Kingdom added a cool $6.6 million to the overall amount ($161 million).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Variety, Warner Bros\u2019 head of domestic distribution Jeff Goldstein said he was \u201cgiddy\u201d and made it clear it was a \u201cbig weekend\u201d for the film. Goldstein said the success was \u201cbecause of the lighthearted nature of the film\u201d and the fact it didn&#8217;t require viewers to be Pok\u00e9mon fans. Critical reviews so far have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/the_detective_pikachu_movie_reviews_are_in_and_its_actually_pretty_mixed\">mixed<\/a>. If you haven&#8217;t already, read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/movie_review_pokemon_detective_pikachu_does_enough_to_break_the_bad_video_game_movie_curse\">our own written review<\/a><\/strong> or view the above video version.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you seen Detective Pikachu in cinemas yet? What did you think of it? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_gfnKs7P7qs?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Warner Bros. and Legendary\u2019s live-action film, Detective Pikachu, has defied the video game movie curse at the North American box office in its opening weekend, collecting a total of $58 million when it launched across 4,202 venues. Disney and Marvel\u2019s all-star heroes in Avengers: Endgame managed to withstand the pocket monster assault, raking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}