VIDEO : Alita: Battle Angel Wins Soft Holiday Weekend

Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron?s sci-fi action film Alita: Battle Angel is a project nearly two decades in the making, but its debut suggests that it was worth the wait. The film outperformed box office pundits? expectations with $27.8 million over the first three days of the four-day holiday weekend in the U.S., and is expected to earn $33 million across all four days and $41 million for its first five days after premiering a day early last week.