‘Deadpool’ Dominates ‘Gods of Egypt’ at the Box Office

The opening of “Gods of Egypt” at the box office may have left Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. feeling like it was visited by a plague of locusts.

The big budget action-adventure film, created in hopes of spawning a new franchise for the studio whose blockbuster “Hunger Games” series recently ended, flopped at the box office, opening to just $14 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates. That’s a very weak start for a movie that cost $140 million to produce.