Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Devours Idris Elba's Beast At Box Office

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Dragon Ball Super: Super Herofinished the weekend atop the domestic box office, earning over $20 million over its three-day theatrical slate. Idris Elba's newest cinematic survival adventure, Beast, looked to compete during a relatively slow August weekend but fell short of the coveted top spot.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, the brand-new Crunchyroll original film, follows the emblematic Piccolo and his former student Gohan as they embark on an intense mission to save the world from androids Gamma 1 and Gamma 2 of the reformed Red Ribbon Army. As reported by Deadline, the film performed very well despite the lack of ongoing marketing campaigns, which Universal's Beast utilized on various platforms to promote its film. The immersive outing says a lot about the committed fan base of the popular anime.

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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero premiered this past Friday and took home $10.88 million to conclude the night. Saturday's performance was not as impressive, but the anime film generated roughly $5.8 million. Sunday proved to be another slow day, but the Crunchyroll original film earned approximately $3.45 million to bring its overall total to a solid $20.1 million. The anime was shown on fewer screens than Universal's Beast but earned twice as much as the Elba survival thriller.

Universal's Beast officially arrived this past Friday and generated a less than impressive $4.3 million to wrap up its opening night. The new film, which stars Elba alongside Sharlto Copley, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Iyana Halley, tells the gripping story of a father and his teenage daughters, who are hunted by a ferocious rouge lion. Unfortunately, Saturday and Sunday were equally slow