Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier has claimed a third week topping North America’s film chart.<\/p>\n
Starring Chris Evans, Robert Redford and Scarlett Johansson, it made $26.2m (\u00a315.5m), beating avian animation Rio 2 into second place.<\/p>\n
Heaven is for Real, the story of a young boy who claims to have visited heaven during a near-death experience, was number three over Easter weekend.<\/p>\n
But Johnny Depp’s new sci-fi thriller Transcendence fared poorly.<\/p>\n
Directed by Batman cinematographer Wally Pfister, the film sees Depp playing a dying computer genius, who uploads his consciousness to a supercomputer and achieves a problematic digital afterlife.<\/p>\n
After suffering poor reviews, the movie opened in fourth place, taking $11m (\u00a36.5m), a fraction of its $100m production budget.<\/p>\n
It is Depp’s third movie in a row to stumble at the box office, following last summer’s The Lone Ranger and Tim Burton’s comedy misfire Dark Shadows.<\/p>\n
“As we approach the summer movie season, box-office drawing power becomes more about the concept of the movie rather than its star,” said Paul Dergarabedian. senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak.<\/p>\n
“It may not have been so much (about) Johnny Depp, but audiences right now like brands that they know.”<\/p>\n
The US top 10 also contained three movies with a religious theme. Following Heaven is for Real came biblical epic Noah at nine, and God’s Not Dead at 10.<\/p>\n
The latter, about a religious freshman college student who debates with his professor on the existence of God, has made $48m (\u00a328.5m) over the last five weeks, even though it is playing in far fewer venues than the blockbuster fare at the top of the chart.<\/p>\n
“There’s a core audience and they’re very interested in seeing films with a faith-based centre,” said Rory Bruer, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment, whose TriStar Pictures unit distributed Heaven is for Real.<\/p>\n
“The one main ingredient most have is that they are somewhat inspirational in nature,” he added. “People feel like they get something out of it.”<\/p>\n
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