https://staging2.theplaylist.net/alien-covenant-just-barely-edges-guardians-galaxy-vol-2-take-top-spot-box-office-20170521/ Mon, 22 May 2017 01:31:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/alien-covenant-just-barely-edges-guardians-galaxy-vol-2-take-top-spot-box-office-20170521/#comment-153952 Sun, 21 May 2017 21:35:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=365862#comment-153952 Too bad, Covenant was a very strange and interesting picture.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/alien-covenant-just-barely-edges-guardians-galaxy-vol-2-take-top-spot-box-office-20170521/#comment-153951 Sun, 21 May 2017 19:53:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=365862#comment-153951 But actually, Guardians beat Alien on Friday through Sunday….Alien only gets the fictitious “top” spot because Alien’s Thursday box office being counted towards the “weekend”. I’d like to see the media people covering movies stop allowing studios to spin their opening weekend hype by counting Thursday box office as part of “opening weekend”. It’s the studios way of making it seem like movies are doing better than their predecessors for purposes of marketing hype.

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