User blog:Ceauntay/Weekend Box Office: 'Heroes Forever: The New Resolution' Earns $22 Million in Thursday Previews

= 'Murder on the Orient' and 'Daddy's Home 2' also strong on debuts. =

Paramount's Heroes Forever: The New Resolution got off a powerful start as it plumed in a massive $22 million from 3,825 locations.

Heroes Forever: The Resolution is directed by Gary Ross, who also directs the first Heroes Forever film, the last four of the Jane Hoop Elementary films and the first The Hunger Games, and stars Cameron Boyce, G. Hannelius, Marcus Scribner, Mika Abdalla, Jake Short, Jeremy Piven, and returning Jane Hoop Elementary stars Blake Brown, Ben Linkin, Amy Tammie and Barbara Blue.

The pic is 59% higher than the Thursday debut of Heroes Forever: The New Beginning, which debuted with only $9 million. It is also slightly higher than Jane Hoop Elementary: Turbo of Catland ($21 million) in 2009, but still behind Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush - Part 2 ($41.1 million) in 2011 and Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush - Part 1 ($25 million).

Heroes Forever: The New Resolution is now pushing its projection to earn anywhere between $135 million to $145 million in it's opening weekend, which would make it the fourth largest opener of 2017 behind Beauty and the Beast ($174 million), Teen Titans 2 ($164 million) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($146 million), and second largest opening in the Jane Hoop Elementary series just behind Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush - Part 2 ($165.2 million).