Drummer Boy opens to $9.4 million as Angel’s audience shows up

Angel’s Revolutionary War musical Drummer Boy opened to $9,421,843 from 2,850 theaters, third behind Godzilla Minus Zero and The Cat in the Hat, according to The Numbers. Box Office Mojo’s Sunday estimate was $9.31 million. The film drew an A CinemaScore and a 94 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes against a 58 percent critics’ score from 12 reviews. It beat The Numbers’ Friday-morning forecast, and its soundtrack reached the top of Apple’s iTunes charts. The second weekend is the next test.