Angelina Jolie’s returned to the silver screen after a near-four year absence and hit the ground running. Walt Disney’s Maleficent, a darker re-imagining of the Sleeping Beauty story with the emphasis on its conflicted villain, debuted over the weekend with a terrific $70 million frame, including $6.7m in IMAX alone. That sum included $4.2m in Thursday showings. This is a bit below the $79m debut weekend for Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful. It’s obviously smaller than the $116m weekend debut for Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland back in March 2010, which was a record for a non-sequel at the time, but absolutely no one was expecting similar numbers for the Jolie vehicle. In terms of weekend multipliers, it scored a $24.2m opening day, which means the Jolie vehicle had a 2.89x, almost identical to the Mia Wasikowska/Johnny Depp fantasy over its Fri-Sun debut.
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