“Men in Black 3,” which opened last week, collected $29.3 million in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters to fall to the No. 2 position on U.S. and Canadian box office charts.
Starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as black-suited secret agents, together again for the first time since 2002, “MIB 3” ticket sales slipped by 58 percent from its opening weekend. It has collected $274.6 million in overseas markets since its release after opening No. 1 in 104 foreign countries. That includes $19 million from both China and Russia.
It will finish the Memorial Day weekend on top in the U.S. too.
The original “MIB,” which bowed in 2002, took in $51 million in its three-day opening weekend and “MIB2” did $52 million. Sony expects another $17.6 million Sunday and $15 million from “MIB3” Monday.
The numbers are good news for Will Smith too. His return to the big screen for the first time in four years stands as his third-biggest opening, behind “I Am Legend” ($77M) and “Hancock” ($62M).
The international numbers were buoyed by IMAX sales, which contributed about $12 million to the film’s worldwide total.
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