Kong: Skull Island Dethrones Logan At The Box Office

03/11/2017 10:42 am EST

Kong: Skull Island has dethroned Logan as king of the box office, earning $20.2 million on Friday from 3,846 theaters. Kong: Skull Island is projected to earn about $53 million in its opening weekend.

While that total is enough to take the top spot away from Logan, it hardly compares to Logan's $88.4 million box office debut last week. Kong: Skull Island also has a considerably higher budget to make up for, coming in at $185 million compared to Logan's $97 million.

Some analysts believed that Logan could hold onto its position at the top of the box office for another week, but that proved not to be the case. Logan brought in an estimated $10.5 million on Friday and is projected to earn about $36.5 million throughout its second weekend, bringing its domestic total to something around the $350 million mark by Monday.

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Kong: Skull Island currently has an 83.65 ComicBook Composite Score and a 4.18 out of 5 ComicBook User Rating. Logan boasts a an 88.68 ComicBook Composite Score, making it the second-highest ranked comic book movie, and a 4.74 out of 5 user ranking, putting it at the top of that chart. See how these film's box office totals compare to others with ComicBook.com's box offices chart and give Kong: Skull Island your own rating below.

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures' Kong: Skull Island reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer) In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific - as beautiful as it is treacherous - unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.

In Logan, it's 2029. Mutants are gone--or very nearly so. An isolated, despondent Logan is drinking his days away in a hideout on a remote stretch of the Mexican border, picking up petty cash as a driver for hire. His companions in exile are the outcast Caliban and an ailing Professor X, whose singular mind is plagued by worsening seizures. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy abruptly end when a mysterious woman appears with an urgent request--that Logan shepherd an extraordinary young girl to safety. Soon, the claws come out as Logan must face off against dark forces and a villain from his own past on a live-or-die mission, one that will set the time-worn warrior on a path toward fulfilling his destiny.

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