{"id":217217,"date":"2020-03-15T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/03\/15\/us-box-office-set-to-record-lowest-weekend-takings-in-20-yrs\/"},"modified":"2020-03-15T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T09:27:09","slug":"us-box-office-set-to-record-lowest-weekend-takings-in-20-yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/15\/us-box-office-set-to-record-lowest-weekend-takings-in-20-yrs\/","title":{"rendered":"US box office set to record lowest weekend takings in 20 yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/2020_3$large_lowte9.jpg><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The US box office is set to record its lowest weekend takings in over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The drop comes amid continued concerns over the coronavirus outbreak, which has led many citizens in the US and across the world to quarantine themselves in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>As Deadline report, this weekend is set to bring in figures of around $58m at the box office nationwide, which is the lowest since the weekend of September 11-13, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Figures show that new Pixar film Onward will be the biggest taker of the weekend, at $12.5m, which is down 68% from its opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Other films at the top end of the rankings across the weekend include Bloodshot ($3.78m), The Invisible Man ($6.2m) and The Hunt ($2.2m).<\/p>\n<p>The movie industry is being significantly affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. It was revealed yesterday that coronavirus is set to cost the film industry $20 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Losses have already exceeding $7 billion (&pound;5.7b) after production on a number of big titles have had production suspended or their release dates postponed.<\/p>\n<p>Among those completed films that will now be released at a later date are A Quiet Place II and Daniel Craig&rsquo;s final outing as James Bond, No Time To Die.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Pattinson-starring The Batman is also halting its production, alongside a host of Netflix titles including Stranger Things.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday (March 14), Disney made Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker available to purchase online early, as a gesture of goodwill to those self-isolating in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>(NME)<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US box office set to record lowest weekend takings in 20 yrs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}