The box office has always been said to be a cyclical business, and right now it is in a serious holding pattern as Sony’s “Men In Black: International” leads a weekend of weak grosses while movie theaters once again wait for Disney to get business moving again with “Toy Story 4” next week.
The fourth installment of the “Men In Black” series opened to $28.5 million from 4,224 screens. While that’s only slightly below Sony’s projections of a $30 million weekend, it is well below the low $50 million range that all three previous “Men In Black” films opened to.