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Ron Howard’s “Inferno,” starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones, steps out as the lone wide release at the box office this weekend.

While that makes it an almost shoo-in to take the top spot this weekend, the question is how it will stack up to its predecessors in the “The Da Vinci Code” franchise, based on Dan Brown’s best-selling series.

The film franchise — “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons” — has proven itself to be a force at the global box office. “The Da Vinci Code,” which cost $125 million to make, opened to $77.1 million in the U.S. and Canada before going on to rack up $758.2 million at box offices world-wide, according to Box Office Mojo data. In 2009 Sony Pictures SNE, -1.91% added $25 million to the budget for “Angels and Demons” and the film earned $46.2 million domestically in its opening and grossed $485.9 million globally.

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But it’s been a full decade since professor Robert Langdon was brought to life on the big screen, and seven years since the last film. With audiences being inundated with entertainment content, such a long period between films in a series can cause interest to wane. Not to mention the 40% drop “Angels and Demons” experienced in its opening weekend is a signal of dipping interest.

“While [‘Angels and Demons’] still earned enough to green light a sequel, that may indicate that the fan base for the series could be slipping,” wrote analysts at Box Office.

Walking dead temporada 7 online. Sony cut the production budget for “Inferno” to $75 million and Box Office analysts expect the film to bring in $24 million in its opening weekend.

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The box office is still crowed with competition, though, especially after four new films made their debuts last weekend. If “Boo! A Madea Halloween” is able to get a Halloween jolt, or if Tom Cruise’s “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” is able to hold on strong following its $22.9 million opening, analysts at Box Office think there could be some competition for “Inferno.”

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The top 10 films at the box office are expected to generate $79.2 million this weekend, according to Box Office forecasts. That’s a 27.4% drop from the $109.1 million 20th Century Fox’s FOXA, -2.32%FOX, -2.38% “The Martian” helped the top 10 pull in during the same weekend a year ago.

So far this year the Hollywood has garnered $9.1 billion at the box office, which is up 2.9% compared with this time last year.

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