#animated release

NEW YORK | Box office Top 20: ‘Night School’ is No. 1

NEW YORK — Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish‘s “Night School” opened with $27.3 million in North American ticket sales, making it the first straight-up comedy to debut No. 1 at the box office since Melissa McCarthy’s “The Boss” in April 2016.

In what was expected to be a close race, Universal’s “Night School” easily bested the Warner Bros. animated release “Smallfoot,” according to final box-office…