Chastain terminates Arnie's box office ambitions
- Published: 22 Jan 2013 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Life
Jessica Chastain easily outmuscled Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mark Wahlberg at the weekend, topping the North American box office with her supernatural horror film Mama and the Oscar-nominated Osama bin Laden hunt thriller Zero Dark Thirty.
Mama opened well above expectations with a box-office topping US$28.1 million (836 million baht) for Universal Pictures, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
Chastain also held the second spot with Zero Dark Thirty, for which she received an Academy Awards nomination for best actress. In its second week of wide release, Zero Dark Thirty took in US$17.6 million.
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