List of highest-grossing openings for films saw 42x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

The following is a list of the highest-grossing opening weekends for films. The list is dominated by recent films due to inflation, steadily increasing production and marketing budgets, and modern films opening on more screens.

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