"Final Destination Bloodlines" tops N. American box office on opening weekend

LOS ANGELES, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema's "Final Destination Bloodlines" took the top spot at the North American box office on its opening weekend with an estimated three-day cume of 51 million U.S. dollars, data from measurement firm Comscore showed on Sunday.

The supernatural horror film, directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, is the sixth installment in the Final Destination film series following 2011's "Final Destination 5."

"Final Destination Bloodlines" stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana as a college student who inherits her grandmother's sudden premonition about death and tries to save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.

The R-rated title has received an approval rating of 93 percent based on 124 reviews on the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. It also earned a "B+" on an "A+" to "F" scale from audiences polled by the market research firm CinemaScore.

Disney and Marvel Studios' superhero film "Thunderbolts*" came in second with 16.5 million dollars on its third weekend. The film has grossed 155.4 million dollars in North America for a global cume of 325.7 million dollars.

Warner Bros. Pictures' horror film "Sinners" landed in third with 15.4 million dollars on its fifth weekend for a North American total of 240.8 million dollars. Enditem