Sony’s ‘Hotel Transylvania’ tops box office

Los Angeles : Sony’s “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” booked a stay at the top of the North American box office, taking $44.1 million in ticket sales, according to industry estimates Sunday. The animated fantasy comedy, whose voice cast includes Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez, follows Count Dracula and his family as they get away from their hotel for their own vacation. 

It swatted away last week’s number one, “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” in at second with takings of $28.8 million over the three-day weekend, according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations. The 20th release in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe sees ex-con Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) languishing under house arrest in San Francisco after being caught, as his shrinkable superhero alter-ego, fighting some of the other Avengers in “Captain America: Civil War” (2016).

Struggling to balance home life and Ant-Man duties, he’s confronted by old flame Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), alias the Wasp, with an urgent new mission.Third place went to Universal’s new release “Skyscraper,” with earnings of $25.5 million.