By Michael CavnaFar easier to predict than a presidential election are the chances of a different prominent November candidate: Doctor Strange, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, should win its top seat handily at the American box office this weekend. And perhaps the best bellwether so far occurred over Halloween weekend: Disney/Marvel's Doctor Strange grossed US$86 million ($119.9m) overseas, upon opening in 33 foreign markets. Amid that impressive take, Doctor Strange grossed US$7.8m from Imax screens - the highest-grossing October international debut for Imax, Entertainment Weekly reports. Surgeon-turned-sorcerer Dr Stephen Strange was created, of course, by the great Steve Ditko - and first appeared in 1963 in Marvel's Strange Tales. Dr Strange officially opens on Friday in the United States and looks to continue Marvel's unbroken string of hits since 2008's breakthrough Iron Man.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 01, 2016 16:09 UTC