The weekend's other new release fared a lot better, as the Tom Hanks-Paul Greengrass thriller arrived at No 2 on an estimated $26m£16.2m2m).
Rocky went silent for sixteen years, until Stallone's own star had fallen far enough — the early aughts saw him in barely released fare with titles like "Eye See You" and "Avenging Angelo" — that humility was no longer so abstract a concept.
Rocky went silent for sixteen years, until Stallone's own star had fallen far enough the early aughts saw him in barely released fare with titles like "Eye See You" and "Avenging Angelo that humility was no longer so abstract a concept.
While women can now find more work in short-form and independent films, they're still not trusted, it seems, with the wide-release fare that costs studios tens of millions of dollars.
But label executives say older artists with a library of once-popular releases fare surprisingly well on streaming services.
Other limited releases fared less well.
While the wide releases fared pretty dismally, films arriving on fewer than 100 screens in many cases performed just as badly.
Indie releases fared equally with from major labels, with indies constituting half of the 12 albums, and Chance the Rapper's self-released "Acid Rap" album finishing impressively at No. 3 behind pop world heavyweights Beyoncé and Kanye West.
There are already a plethora of tablet devices available in China, many of which are even cheaper than the Fire Tablet while others are more glamorous — such as Xiaomi's new 999 RMB Mi Pad 2. While it is hard to know how well Amazon's newest release will fare, the company has picked a solid partner to help market the device and equip it with the right services for Chinese consumers.
By April that trend will fade, as companies begin releasing fresher fare, like "Wall Street 2," set for release by Fox on April 23, though Oliver Stone finished shooting it only last month.
