Sci-Fi Flick ‘Alita’ Unexpectedly Topples ‘Lego’ at Box Office

(Bloomberg) -- The futuristic science-fiction film “Alita: Battle Angel” far surpassed estimates to capture top position at the weekend box office, unexpectedly knocking off “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” after just a week in another sign the animated sequel is off to a rocky start.

“Alita,” a 20th Century Fox movie produced by James Cameron of “Titanic” fame and starring Rosa Salazar and Christoph Waltz, brought in $27.8 million in the U.S. and Canada from Friday through Sunday, researcher Comscore Inc. estimated. That trounced the $16.7 million estimate from BoxOfficePro and exceeded the $21.2 million total for the Lego sequel.

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