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'Pacific Rim Uprising' leads a pack of new movies at the box office this weekend, and should finally be the challenger to dethrone the King of Wakanda, a.k.a. the history-making 'Black Panther.'

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00:00Cadets? You'd better gear up.

00:06Pacific Rim Uprising leads a pack of new movies at the box office this weekend and should

00:10finally be the challenger to dethrone the king of Wakanda, aka the history-making

00:15Black Panther. The legendary Universal sequel is tracking to open to a modest $25 million

00:20or less in North America, but should have more success overseas, where the big budget

00:24offering is expected to cross $100 million in its international debut. The first Pacific

00:29Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro, earned a sizable $309.2 million overseas in 2013,

00:34including $111.9 million in China. Domestically, it topped out at $101.8 million

00:40after debuting to $37.3 million. This time out, the $150 million film sees the human-piloted

00:46mega-robot square off against otherworldly monsters of mass destruction. Star Wars

00:50standout John Boyega leads the cast, with Steven S. DeKnight making his feature

00:54directorial debut. Meanwhile, on its six-weekend, Black Panther is expected to earn

00:58between $17 million and $18 million as it passes the $623 million made by fellow Marvel

01:03film The Avengers to become the top-grossing superhero film of all time in North America,

01:08unadjusted for inflation. Elsewhere at the crowded box office, MGM and Paramount's new

01:12animated family film, Sherlock Gnomes, has a shot at battling Black Panther for second

01:17place if it comes in on the high end of expectations. Paramount is predicting a debut in

01:22the low to mid-teens, but some tracking services show it coming in higher. A sequel to 2011's

01:27Gnomeo and Juliet, Sherlock Gnomes features the voices of returning cast members James McAvoy,

01:32Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Stephen Merchant and Ozzy Osbourne. Plus,

01:37Johnny Depp as Sherlock Gnomes, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Watson and Mary J. Blythe as Irene.

01:42Steven Soderbergh is back with Unsane, a psychological horror thriller shot with an iPhone 7 and reportedly

01:48costing $1.5 million to make. Tracking services project a debut of $3 to $6 million for the film,

01:54which stars Claire Foy as a troubled businesswoman who lands in a mental institution after she's

01:59stalked by her former boyfriend. Also opening this weekend is Paul, Apostle of Cries from

02:04Sony's faith-based label Affirm. Box office observers are projecting an opening of $3 to $5 million,

02:09although last weekend, faith-based title I Can Only Imagine zoomed to a $17.1 million debut after

02:15also being expected to open to no more than $5 million.

02:19Midnight Sun, the fifth new movie opening nationwide, is tracking to open in roughly the

02:24same range as Unsane and Paul Apostle. And at the specialty box office, Wes Anderson's

02:28Isle of Dogs will debut in 27 theaters in select markets across the country.

02:33Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum and Greta Gerwig are among the

02:37voice cast of Anderson's stop-motion animated adventure about a boy and his faithful pet

02:42out to stop a canine genocide. So with so many choices this weekend, which movie will

02:47you be catching in theaters? Do you think Pacific Rim Uprising will take the top spot

02:51from Black Panther or do you think Wakanda will reign supreme another week? Let us know

02:56in the comments. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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