LOS ANGELES — Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation has checked into the No. 1 spot at the box office in its opening weekend and left the Dwayne Johnson action thriller, Skyscraper, in the dust.
Sony Pictures estimates Sunday that the animated family movie earned $44.1 million from North American theaters.
It easily beat out Johnson's Skyscraper, which remained earthbound in its first weekend in North America. The Universal Pictures film brought in only $25.5 million domestically. Skyscraper cost a reported $125 million to produce.
Second place went to Disney and Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp, which brought in an additional $28.8 million in its second weekend, down 62 percent from last week.
And the coming of age film Eighth Grade scored top marks in limited release with $252,284 from four theaters.