Moviegoers Set Aside Virus Concerns as ‘Onward’ Wins Box Office

North American moviegoers largely shoved aside concern about sitting in a dark room with strangers amid a coronavirus outbreak.

“Onward,” Walt Disney Co.’s animated feature from Pixar, opened in first place with weekend sales of $40 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, Comscore Inc. estimated Sunday -- only a bit shy of the $42 million to $48 million analysts had projected. A new Ben Affleck movie from Warner Bros. beat projections.