The film Godzilla Minus Zero opened with $31.6 million over the weekend and topped the North American box office chart, ABC News reported. According to that report, the debut set a record for a foreign-language film at the North American box office. The ABC News summary described the film as having stomped into theaters with its opening.
The ABC News headline went further, describing the opening as clobbering The Cat in the Hat. The summary of that report did not give the competing film's earnings, so the margin between the two openings cannot be determined from the sources available for this story.
The New York Times also covered the film. In an article by Robert Ito, the paper reported that the filmmakers behind the sequel revealed how they reimagined King Ghidorah for what the Times article on the monster described as a brutal, high-stakes battle royale.
The Times account, as summarized, focused on the creative work behind the monster rather than on ticket sales. The summary did not say how the film performed financially, which means the two outlets cover different aspects of the release.
Neither outlet's summary mentioned the film's studio, the number of theaters where it played, or the country where it was made. The sources do not conflict on the facts they share, and the only timing they supply is the weekend of the opening, which ABC News placed in its report.
Sources: ABC News: 'Godzilla Minus Zero' stomps to a record-setting $31.6 debut, clobbering 'The Cat in the Hat'; The New York Times: Ghidorah Brings Gravity to ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’.