The Invisible Man, a Universal Pictures monster movie made for $7 million, took the #1 slot at the box office this weekend with a cool $29 million. Alternatively The Mummy, a Universal Pictures monster movie made for north of $150 million, opened to $31.7 million in 2017. Let this be a lesson that studios don’t have to “event-ize” everything budget-wise to make a film that’s respectable, popular, and effective, as evidenced by the incredibly similar debut numbers and incredibly different budgets here. Indeed, The Invisible Man was greenlit in the wake of Universal scrapping its …

Captain Marvel soared past two more box office milestones in its third weekend in release.