If it wants to fight its way into the black, it will need to get a big lift from foreign crowds.

'Ghost in the Shell,' an adaptation of a popular Japanese manga about a cyber-enhanced warrior (a be-spandexed Scarlett Johansson) who must take down a cabal of terrorist hackers, was produced in conjunction with DreamWorks Pictures and Reliance Entertainment. You wonder why do audiences like it so much and the reviewers don't?' 'It's nice when you have critics and audiences aligned, but it's painful when you don't get it. 'I was shocked and still am,' said Aronson. 'The picture works because it's a great concept and having Alec Baldwin, who is such a well known voice, voicing a baby is near genius,' said Chris Aronson, Fox's head of domestic distribution.Īronson said he was surprised that the reviews for the film weren't stronger. Heading into the weekend, 'Boss Baby' had been projected to debut to $30 million. DreamWorks Animation produced the film for over $100 million, with Fox distributing the picture. Alec Baldwin, in vulpine 'Glengarry Glen Ross' mode, voices a power suit-wearing infant, leading a vocal cast that includes Tobey Maguire, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, and Lisa Kudrow. The weekend's other new release, Paramount's ' Ghost in the Shell,' bombed, taking in a demoralizing $19 million.Ĭritics were cool toward 'Boss Baby,' which centers on a cuteness standoff between babies and puppies.

'Beauty and the Beast' added another $48 million to its mammoth $395.5 million domestic haul. The animated comedy bottled up a leading $49 million from 3,773 locations, edging out Disney's ' Beauty and the Beast,' a box office juggernaut that's dominated the multiplexes since debuting three weeks ago. LOS ANGELES, March 26 () - ' Boss Baby' is enjoying the view from the top.

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