‘Godzilla’ sequel disappoints at box office but still stomps on competition with $49 million

“The best news this weekend was for the industry itself,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst for Comscore. “Even if the top movie didn’t earn $100 million, we had a big up weekend and we need more of those to get out of this deficit that we’ve been in since basically the beginning of the year.”