Statham as an action hero is a staple of cinema these days and pulls in good number on debut weekends so next weeks box office will be interesting especially with the new release of A Minecraft Movie.
Falling to number 2 this weekend is Disney's trouble movie Snow White which for a live action remake is not pulling in the number despite better than expected reviews.
On its second weekend of relese it takes $14.3 Million for a total North American gross of nearly $67 Million - it could hit $100 Million but not a lot more!
The rest of the top 5 was new releases with religious series The Chosen: Last Supper Part 1 at number 3, horror movie The Woman In the Yard at 4 and mystical drama/horror Death of a Unicorn at 5, perhaps the biggest surprise of the weekend considering the talent of Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd.
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After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.