The decisive victory of Emmanuel Macron for president of France over Marine Le Pen is being widely hailed as a victory of good over evil, and an affirmation of open migration flows and globalization. Certainly, the defeat of the odious National Front should be considered good news, but the global conflict over trade and immigration has barely begun.

On both sides of the Atlantic, there are now two distinct, utterly hostile, opposing views about globalization and multiculturalism. The world-wise policies of the former investment banker Macron play well in the Paris “bubble” — and its doppelgangers in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo and London — but not so much in the struggling industrial and rural hinterlands.

The trade dilemma

For much of the past half-century, the capitalist powers, led by the United States, favored free trade, even with terms often vastly unbalanced. Now President Donald Trump has undermined this orthodoxy. But anti-globalism transcends conservatism. Besides the National Front, which won over a third of the vote, doubling its support from 2002, the other rising political force in the country, far-left socialist Jean-Luc Melenchon, is at least as hostile to free trade. Much the same can be said of the ascendant Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party.

Globalists argue that the free trade regime, primarily promoted by the United States, has been a boon to the world economy. Certainly, the last half-century has seen enormous progress in some countries, most notably in East Asia, and led to a general decline in global poverty. It has also produced lower prices for consumers in America and elsewhere.

Yet, there has been a price to pay, perhaps not in Newport Beach or Beverly Hills, but definitely in areas such as Lille, France, or Rust Belt Ohio, where workers and communities suffered for free trade “principles.” The trade deficit with China alone, notes the labor backer Economic Policy Institute, has cost the country some 3.4 million jobs between 2001 and 2015.

Immigration splits

Immigration presents, if anything, a more divisive issue. A clear majority of Europeans, notes a recent Chatham House survey, oppose further immigration from Muslim-majority countries. Concerns over migration, a London School of Economic report found, fueled Brexit even more than trade and economics. Nor is this just a reaction of the old. Le Pen did far better among the young, winning some 44 percent of all 18- to 24-year-old voters.

On this side of the Atlantic, most Americans favor less immigration and, according to a recent Pew Research Center study, also want tougher border controls and increased deportations of the undocumented. Most, including Republicans, may not identify with the less temperate sentiments of Trumpians, but 60 percent, according to a March Gallup poll, are worried about illegal immigration and oppose the more adamant expressions of progressive dogma, such as sanctuary cities. According to a February Harvard-Harris Poll survey, some 80 percent of Americans oppose the notion of sanctuary cities.

Coming next: The great recalibration?

Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron could not be more different in tone and approach, but to succeed they will need to navigate the challenges of globalization in a way that meets the needs of their electorates. Trends and technologies may cross borders easily, but electorates retain their interests and identities. Rather than cling to a narrow perspective, perhaps both men can find a way to keep the trading system, and some limited immigration, without disrupting too many lives and the economy.

Macron, today’s poster child for the globalists, is targeting London’s financial sector to bring back some high-end jobs to Paris, and could morph into an almost Trumpian protectionist, with the European Union serving as the preferred zone. For his part, Trump seems less likely than once believed to suppress trade, but he seems determined to make “deals” to turn the terms more in the favor of U.S. workers.

The two newly elected leaders will confront some who embrace open borders and others who want to close the country off to newcomers. Neither approach makes sense, given the cultural and economic anxiety of many citizens, as well as the important contributions made by immigrants, particularly in the United States. Immigrants are critical to our lagging entrepreneurial sector, as laid out by the Kauffman Foundation. They also have played an oversized role in technology and other industries. Overall, 40 percent of all Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or their offspring. Some industries, including tourism and agriculture, could face major crises unless Trump finds a way to allow workers to come in as legal guest workers, rather than undocumented immigrants.

This will require something in short supply today: a reasoned approach. The fulminating xenophobia of a Le Pen or Steve Bannon may be repugnant, but equally unreasonable and out of touch are the trade dogmas of the Davos group or open borders notions now embraced by many on the left.

Finding a way toward some sort of great recalibration, a middle ground between extremes, may be difficult in these polarized times, but it may be the only way to address critical issues without making the future far worse than the recent past.

Joel Kotkin is the R.C. Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange and executive director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism (www.opportunityurbanism.org).

ANAHEIM — Seconds before the first puck dropped Sunday, someone tossed a catfish onto the ice, which would have been outrageously odd were this not the NHL playoffs.

Evidently, the pitched fish was intended to carry on a Nashville Predators tradition, although it also allowed the Ducks, at the start, to be only the second most-dead thing inside Honda Center.

In Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, however, the home team sprang brilliantly to life, soon enough this time to put together a 5-3 win and tie the series at a game apiece.

In desperate need of an adrenaline-spiking spark, it helped that the Ducks had a player whose motor compares favorably to an American television icon, pink floppy ears and all.

“The one thing that’s been consistent with him (is) he’s been a type of Energizer Bunny,” said Coach Randy Carlyle, speaking of Ondrej Kase and inviting a fuzzy fictional character into a very cold and real ice hockey showdown.

Moved up in the second period to the line featuring Ryan Getzlaf and Nick Ritchie, Kase scored the goal that pulled the Ducks even, 3-3, then was out there six minutes later when Ritchie produced the eventual game-winner.

That’s how important depth is in the NHL postseason, Kase, a 21-year-old from the Czech Republic in just his fifth career playoff game, coming through after replacing long-time Ducks staple Corey Perry.

“Moving him up and down in our lineup gives us some flexibility,” Carlyle said. “He’s a fearless player for his size (6-foot, 180 pounds). He goes into the (tough) areas and can make plays with good players.”

Various Ducks have been spotted walking around the locker room lately wearing T-shirts that, on the back, read “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies.”

This is presumably a nod to the strategy of populating the area in front of the opposing goalie and not a reference to the members of the media, who, with the Ducks advancing two rounds, have grown to reach hallway-choking numbers.

Bodies, bodies, bodies in front of Pekka Rinne is pretty much a necessity when facing Nashville’s goaltender, a 6-foot-5 deterrent who’s about as inviting as a closed garage door.

Kase’s score Sunday was an example of the benefits of jamming the traffic in front of Rinne.

As defenseman Shea Theodore sent the puck toward the Predators’ goal, no less than five players — including Kase, Getzlaf and Ritchie — congested the front of the net.

The puck then deflected off someone or something and slipped free to Rinne’s left, where Kase picked it up and slid it — just barely — into the goal.

It was so just barely, in fact, that Kase didn’t even recognize this shining moment of his career as it happened in real time. He never saw the puck pass the goal line.

“Nick Ritchie said goal,” he explained, “and I started celebrating.”

And so the Ducks survived another listless start. Oh, they attempted to show more life early on Sunday, although, frankly, it would have been difficult for that not to happen.

They opened Game 1 on Friday with sloth-like sluggishness, the Ducks performing in a manner that suggested they forgot the players are expected to take their pregame naps before arriving at the arena.

The game operations folks at Honda Center tried to help. For a fleeting moment two minutes into the game, the overhead scoreboards listed the Ducks as having 99 shots on goal instead of the one they actually had at that point.

Yet, they still gave up the first goal, took the first penalty, surrendered the first power-play goal, took the second penalty, allowed the second goal and, 16 minutes in, had just two shots on goal.

The second Nashville tally was particularly discouraging in that goaltender John Gibson lost sight of the puck so completely that James Neal could have scored using a spatula.

Predators forward Viktor Arvidsson apparently eclipsed Gibson with one of the NHL’s all-time most comprehensive screens, Gibson looking and leaning to his left as Neal flipped the puck into the sudden open space to his right.

The sequence was defeating and deflating, all of Honda Center joining the home team in going limp.

But goals 99 seconds apart to finish the first period and start the second lifted the Ducks back into a 2-2 tie and provided the spark they needed, a spark Kase kept lit as the middle period progressed.

“I think it’s great,” the winger said of the victory. “If we were losing (the series) 2-0, it would be so hard.”

Sure, the Ducks now have come from behind in six of their nine postseason wins. But another loss Sunday would have tested this team on all sort of levels, both mental and physical.

Not only are the Predators the hottest team going, but this franchise — and it mostly has been this same roster over the past two postseasons — enters Game 3 on Tuesday having won nine in a row in the playoffs at Bridgestone Arena.

“We know how important these games are,” Carlyle said, “and every one gets more important as we go forward.”

That’s the fact everybody understands today, even that poor catfish.

ANAHEIM — Fire at their heads. The rest of them will follow.

Nick Ritchie was cruising down left wing Sunday afternoon and suddenly had a puck bounce primly off the wall and into his nitro zone.

There was nothing between Ritchie and Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne. There was also no time for playoff bromides to ring in Ritchie’s ears, like “There are no pretty goals in the playoffs.” Prettiness depends on the eye on the beholder, and the blinking eyes behind the mask.

Ritchie let it go, right at Rinne’s head, and it wound up in the top right corner of the net. That put the Ducks ahead 4-3, and they eventually won Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, 5-3. It was the second time in five nights that Ritchie had gotten the BLT goal, the one that Broke the Last Tie. The previous one was in Game 7 against Edmonton, and it was  the same hollow-point fastball that isn’t supposed to get past today’s goaltenders.

Brandon Montour led the way down the right side and shoved the puck to Ryan Getzlaf, whose tipped pass led Ritchie, and created the space.

“He (Rinne) is a butterfly goaltender so you just try to shoot it high,” Ritchie said. “It ended up in the right spot.”

Rinne was a steel curtain as the Predators ran roughshod over Chicago and St. Louis in the first two rounds. His save percentage for the playoffs was .950 in Nashville’s first 11 games.

But on Friday Jakob Silfverberg and Hampus Lindholm struck from distance, and in Game 2 Sami Vatanen put the Ducks on the board with a power-play goal, their first in 21 tries, and Ritchie took off the driver and scored as well.

All those bombs generally were so well-placed that it’s hard to question Rinne. But at the very least the Ducks have shaken off the spell that he imposed during last year’s first round.

“I just closed my eyes and shot it as hard as I could,” Vatanen said, vouching for the wisdom of simple fans.

Nashville coach Peter Laviolette thought Vatanen’s goal was the proximate cause of the loss. Rarely is there such a bold line of demarcation, but the Ducks did nothing right before Matt Irwin took that tripping penalty on Ondrej Kase. They did very little wrong afterward.

Oh, there was the curious backwards pass that Silfverberg tried to send toward Getzlaf, which became a runaway for Nashville and a goal by Filip Forsberg that made it 3-2. But then Shea Theodore, another one of the young Ducks who sees shooting daylight in a coal mine, put a puck on Rinne, and Kase cashed in the rebound for a 3-3 tie.

And there was a scramble in front of John Gibson that required levees, bomb shelters and blocked shots by Ryan Kesler and Josh Manson. The Predators didn’t score there, and couldn’t coax another puck past Gibson even though they won a string of faceoffs in the third period, and kept forcing icing as the Ducks gasped and the clock remained strangely still.

But when the last-minute draw arrived, Kesler beat Ryan Johansen and got the puck to Getzlaf, who found Antoine Vermette for the empty-netter.

“We’ve got a pretty calm group,” Vatanen said, not speaking for the paying customers.

Getzlaf has become the common thread for all of this. For years he was joined to Corey Perry’s hip. He turned 32 on Wednesday, Perry turns 32 today.

That changed this season. Then Patrick Eaves came over and, with his finishing ability, lit a match to Getzlaf’s line. Then Eaves got hurt in the Edmonton series. Perry rejoined Getzlaf, sometimes with Rickard Rakell. On Sunday Getzlaf played with Kase and Ritchie, neither of whom had participated in an NHL playoff game until this season.

“Getzie’s a world-class player,” Coach Randy Carlyle said. “There might be times when we overuse him, but when you have that option you’re going to take advantage of it.”

In this game Getzlaf had three assists and was plus-2. In 13 playoff games he has 18 points and is plus-10.

Top centers make the game easier for others. For the real top centers, it doesn’t matter who the others are.

“There’s a few minor adjustments that you make when you play with different guys,” Getzlaf said. “I know when these kids come up, they’re going to go hard, so I’ve got to get them the puck down low. But in the end it’s just hockey. They’re here for a reason. I just have to work off them, the best I can.”

Next stop is Nashville, for Game 3 Tuesday. Fire when ready, because they might not be.

COSTA MESA – Police arrested a man early Sunday, May 14, who they said stole car keys from a house and used them to drive away before hitting another vehicle and fleeing the scene.

Costa Mesa police officers were dispatched to the 2000 block of Tustin Avenue around 6:15 a.m. for a reported hit-and-run involving an unoccupied parked vehicle, Sgt. Matt Selinske said.

The driver fled the area on foot. Shortly after, an officer located a possible suspect and detained him. Joshua Thomas Long, 34, whose last known residence was in Costa Mesa, was subsequently linked to the crash and arrested for leaving the scene, Selinske said.

As officers further investigated the incident, they discovered that the residence of the registered owner of the vehicle that was driven had been burglarized and the ignition key of that vehicle had been taken.

Long was arrested without incident on suspicion not only of the hit-and-run, but also residential burglary and auto theft. He did not use weapons, Selinske said.

NOT SO FASHION: Some may think they already know the online style influencer Margaret Zhang, and her eye for photography. After all, Zhang has more than 800,000 Instagram followers and a popular blog called Shine By Three.
A new photo exhibition at Sydney’s Comber Street Studios is showing a different – and more personal – side to Zhang. “Unseen,” a photographic retrospective presented by Vestiaire Collective, features 39 never-before-published photos.
While they may be promoted by the luxury, second-hand e-commerce site, the photos themselves were completely free from any commercial concerns.
Zhang said it’s a chance to express another side of her personality.
“A lot of my photo work is, commercially-speaking, more fashion focused,” Zhang said. On this occasion, “it’s a little more abstract, a little more still life, more landscape. It’s more about talking to the subject, really connecting with them as an individual.”
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In one shot, Zhang shows a girl getting into a pool in Clovelly, one of her favorite beaches in Sydney, while another image was taken on a hiking trek in China. Zhang captures the vibrant colors of the lakes in Jiuzhaigou. The work goes “probably as far back as 2010, when I started publishing professionally,” she said.

Zhang picked up

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Maria Tash is heading to Canada.
The jeweler and piercing specialist will host three pop-up shops in Hudson’s Bay doors in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, where each location will be open for 10 days. The first will bow at the Queen Street location in Toronto on May 18.
Tash, who has worked with celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashley Olsen, Uma Thurman and Scarlett Johansson, will offer her fine-jewelry collection, as well as piercing and ear-styling services on-site. Earlobes are the most popular, but piercing of ear cartilage, inner ear, nostril, septum and navel will also be available to consumers.
“Department stores need a non-Amazon experience — they all need it. You can’t just have piles of clothing around and compete with Amazon. You need styling and things you can’t get by sitting home in your pajamas,” Tash said in an interview last week. “This is part of the reason I think we’re in demand right now. We have this experience [where] not only are you getting this product, but your’re getting fitted and…getting styled.”
For those unfamiliar, ear styling is largely for customers who have existing piercings and want to be fitted for custom diameter and stud lengths. It’s also a way for

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HEAVY METAL: Balenciaga is on a retail roll, with the second store under creative director Demna Gvasalia’s artistic direction set to open in Paris in September.
It marks the brand’s fourth boutique in the capital and second in its so-called golden triangle, which also counts a store on the neighboring Avenue George V that Balenciaga said it plans to keep.
The boutique, located at 57 Avenue Montaigne, will sport the same metal-based industrial concept unveiled at the recently revamped Rue Saint-Honoré flagship in March, based on a clothing warehouse, and is to house Balenciaga’s full men’s and women’s collections.
In the Saint-Honoré store, clothes hang on industrial conveyor rails similar to those in the brand’s production headquarters in Italy. Adding to the factory feel of the space, ceilings are covered in aluminum foil, the changing room walls are made of cast concrete and the utilitarian benches are covered in synthetic leather. Other industrial touches include silicone changing-room curtains and long, aluminum tables for displaying accessories.
The Kering-owned brand, which has 115 stores worldwide, under its new chief executive officer Cédric Charbit recently revved up its management team for merchandising and retail development.
As reported, Daphné Cousineau, who has held key international sales roles at Céline,

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“It’s a pretty good crowd for a Saturday,” Billy Joel sang during “Piano Man,” the last song of the main set at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on, yes, Saturday, and the crowd cheered, prompting Joel to flash a quick smile in return.

But it’s the rest of that verse — the bit where the manager of the piano bar in Joel’s signature song acknowledges that the customers are there to see him sing and “forget about life for a while” — that really captured the joyful nature of the night.

Because over 2 1/2 hours and nearly 30 songs — a terrific show that included guest appearances by singer Pink and Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses — it was easy to forget about the trials and travails of real life and instead sing along to songs about big shots and uptown girls and all the other characters who’ve populated the songs this 67-year-old entertainer has written over the years.

The night opened with “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song),” one of five numbers drawn from 1977’s “The Stranger,” his breakthrough into critical and commercial success — it’s still his all-time best-selling studio album — and the crowd that filled Dodger Stadium was on its feet, singing the story of Anthony and Mama Leone and the rest of the gang from the old neighborhood.

As Joel played a bit of Bach’s “Ode to Joy” as an intro to “My Life,” a hit from 1978, his grand piano slowly rotated so that instead of facing left field he was facing right in the stadium where his boyhood team from Brooklyn settled decades ago.

“So this is where the Dodgers ended up?” he said at the close of that number. “They used to play at Ebbets Field. Then they left and I became a freakin’ Yankees fan.”

The crowd booed and Joel grinned, continuing to talk about how overwhelmed he felt to be playing the stadium all these years after his early days in L.A. playing piano bars, and eventually clubs such as the Troubadour.

The city where the Long Island transplant struggled in his early days as a musician was a focus throughout the night, as Joel shared stories about seeing his now good friend Elton John at Dodger Stadium in the ’70s “when he had that Donald Duck outfit on,” or of living in a friend’s home in Malibu Canyon and dreaming about scoring a Western, an idea that only came to fruition as the song “The Ballad of Billy the Kid,” which he performed early in the set.

“I was still living here when I wrote this song,” he noted by way of introducing “The Entertainer.” “I was wrong when I wrote it, I was cynical. But I like to do this one because it reminds me what an (annoying person) I was.”

Joel hasn’t released an album of new songs since 1993’s “River of Dreams” so there wasn’t an unfamiliar song in the set Saturday, though he did dip into past albums for less-obvious choices, sometimes letting the audience pick, as he did when he asked whether they’d rather hear “Just the Way You Are” — a huge single off “The Stranger” — or “Vienna” — an album track, which by applause (or Joel’s whim, who can really know?) was then played.

For the jazzy ballad “New York State of Mind” Joel brought out the singer Pink to perform, the two of them trading verses, Pink leaning on Joel’s piano as this early highlight of the night unfolded. She then stayed onstage to sing her own hit “Try” while Joel took a quick break off stage.

After a few more numbers, including the ballad “She’s Always a Woman,” the night’s second guest, Axl Rose, arrived on stage to sing AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” — didn’t see that coming did you? — while Joel played guitar down by the front row of fans.

“River of Dreams” came with a mid-song interlude of the Eagles’ “Take It Easy” — Joel typically drops in a song from a significant local act —  before he wrapped things up with “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant,” a pop song in three movements, and “Piano Man,” which had a deafening chorus of practically everyone in the stadium singing along.

There are, of course, some music fans who put down Joel — he’s arrogant and full of himself, he’s corny and sentimental — and you may know some of them. But what they’re missing is that in his heart he’s an old-fashioned show, an entertainer who’s there to show you a good time.

The encore, which added five songs to the night, drove home that point in quick order. “Uptown Girl” opened it up with its upbeat doo-wop vocal harmonies. Rose came out again to sing “Big Shot,” one of the harder-rocking numbers in Joel’s catalog, and while he seemed a little hesitant in the lyrics it was nonetheless a fun run through that song.

And while most of this crowd had been singing along throughout the night, the final pairing of “Only the Good Die Young” and “You May Be Right” surely had everyone on their feet, belting out the choruses.

Having fun, and there’s no need to apologize for enjoying that.

Billy Joel

Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

When: May 13

Main set

Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song) / My Life / Your Song (Elton John abbreviated cover) / Vienna
(fans choice over Just the Way You Are) / Zanzibar / The Entertainer / The Lion Sleeps Tonight (the Tokens cover) / The Longest Time (fans choice over An Innocent Man) / The Magnificent Seven Theme (Elmer Bernstein cover) / The Ballad of Billy the Kid / Don’t Ask Me Why / New York State of Mind (with Pink) / Try (Pink song sung by Pink) / Allentown / She’s Always a Woman / Say Goodbye to Hollywood / Sometimes a Fantasy / Highway to Hell (AC/DC cover with Axl Rose) / We Didn’t Start the Fire / The River of Dreams (With the Eagles’ Take It Easy) / Nessun Dorma (Giacomo Puccini cover sung by guitarist Mike DelGuidice) / Scenes From an Italian Restaurant / Piano Man

Encore

Uptown Girl / It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me / Big Shot (with Axl Rose) / Only the Good Die Young / You May Be Right

Three people were injured in a two-car traffic collision in Irvine early Sunday morning, May 14, according to Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Dohman.

It took firefighters 25 minutes to extricate a male driver trapped inside a mangled car. He was transported by ambulance to UCI Medical’s trauma center in Orange.

His female passenger and the male driver of the second vehicle were taken to Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana. No other passengers were inside the cars.

Dohman said that all three patients are in their late twenties and early thirties.

The cars collided at about 2:46 a.m. near the intersection of Warner Avenue and Culver Drive, Dohman said.

The Irvine Police Department will handle the investigation.

The first major box office flop of the summer movie season has arrived.

Studio estimates Sunday say director Guy Ritchie’s “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” opened to a bleak $14.7 million from more than 3,700 locations against a costly $175 million production budget.

The gritty reimaging of the Excalibur myth starring Charlie Hunnam as Arthur debuted in third place behind box office leader “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and “Snatched” at No. 2.

Warner Bros. was unsurprisingly disappointed at the poor showing for “King Arthur” but hopeful for the rest of its summer slate, including “Wonder Woman” and Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk.”

“Snatched” surprised analysts by beating “King Arthur” on the charts. The raunchy R-rated Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn comedy from Twentieth Century Fox opened with $17.5 million.

Marvel and Disney’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” collected $63 million and has earned $246.2 million domestically in just two weeks.

It was down just 57 percent from last weekend and is proving to be the only film in theaters capable of drawing mass audiences.

Rounding out the top five were holdovers “The Fate of the Furious,” with $5.3 million, and “The Boss Baby” with $4.6 million.

“The newcomers definitely had a tough time … For most general audiences, ‘Guardians’ remains the go-to movie,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore. “It has incredible staying power.”

Neither “King Arthur” nor “Snatched” were well-received by critics, and audiences weren’t all that enchanted either, giving “King Arthur” a B+ CinemaScore and “Snatched” a B.

“Snatched” also lagged behind Schumer’s “Trainwreck,” which opened to $30.6 million in July 2015.

Dergarabedian, however, noted that the success of “Trainwreck” was more of an anomaly than a precedent and echoed the studio in categorizing “Snatched” as a solid start for the film that cost $42 million to make.

There was a clear gender divide, too, between the two major new releases this weekend. “Snatched” audiences were heavily female — an estimated 77 percent according to Fox — while 59 percent of the audience for “King Arthur” was male.

Results were mixed for the newcomers with more limited releases.

The sniper drama “The Wall,” starring WWE fighter John Cena as an American soldier, took in a tepid $891,590 from 541 locations. Better off was BH Tilt’s East Los Angeles car culture drama “Lowriders,” with Eva Longoria and Demian Bichir, which opened in only 295 theaters and still managed to take eighth place on the charts with $2.4 million. The studio said audiences were primarily Hispanic.

Next weekend, Ridley Scott’s “Alien: Covenant” will aim to scare “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” out of first place.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to comScore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” $63 million ($52.2 million international).

2. “Snatched,” $17.5 million ($3.2 million international).

3. “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,” $14.7 million ($29.1 million international).

4. “The Fate of the Furious,” $5.3 million ($13.6 million international).

5. “The Boss Baby,” $4.6 million ($8.7 million international).

6. “Beauty and the Beast,” $3.9 million ($7.5 million international).

7. “How to Be a Latin Lover,” $3.8 million ($3.7 million international).

8. “Lowriders,” $2.4 million.

9. “The Circle,” $1.7 million ($810,000 international).

10. “MET Opera: Der Rosenkavalier (2017),” $1.7 million ($1.5 million international).