Will Smith's Focus beats Fifty Shades of Grey at box office

Will Smith's Focus beats Fifty Shades of Grey at box office, Will Smith's crime caper Focus has debuted at number one on the North American box office chart, knocking Fifty Shades of Grey off the top spot.

But it was a relatively modest opening for the Hollywood star, with Focus earning an estimated $19.1m (£12.4m) between Friday and Sunday.

Erotic film adaptation Fifty Shades of Grey fell to fourth with $10.9m (£7m) after spending two weeks at number one.

In second place was Colin Firth's spy thriller Kingsman: The Secret Service.

That film took $11.8m (£7.6m) over the weekend, just ahead of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, which made $11.2m (£7.3m) in its fourth week of release.

The second highest new entry, horror film The Lazarus Effect, rounded out the top five, taking $10.6m (£6.8m)...Read More