It was an easy ride for Brad Pitt action flick ‘Bullet Train’ to overtake competition at the box office. The film, based on the 2010 novel MariaBeetle by Kōtarō Isaka, also features musician Bad Bunny, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sandra Bullock as Maria Beetle. ‘Bullet Train’ is expected to stay in the top spot as the summer dumping ground season shows little in the way of competition being released anytime soon.
The previous top place holder, ‘DC League of Super-Pets’, took a 52% drop in its sophomore weekend. The animated film based on characters from DC comic books and featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart is expected to be the last comic book film to hit screens until Dwayne Johnson brings ‘Black Adam’ to the big screens in October.
Jordan Peele’s sci-fi thriller ‘Nope’ dropped into third with $8.5 million. That is just under a million above fourth place finisher ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’. The Marvel fantasy was in a close battle for the last two spots on the Weekend Box Office Top 5 as it hammered out $7.7 million against animated hit ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ which took $7.1 million.
It’s going to be slow for theaters as the hot days of summer drag on. While there may be some changes to the Weekend Box Office Top 5 in the coming weeks nothing significant is anticipated. October will bring the start of award campaign runs for this year’s hopefuls and theaters will get added boost from comic book superheroes like ‘Black Adam’ and Marvel sequel ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ in November.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE TOP 5 (August 5 – 7, 2022)
- ‘Bullet Train’ – $30 million – action-adventure (debut)
- ‘DC League of Super-Pets’ – $11.1 million – animated (drop $11.9 million, 52% down)
- ‘Nope’ – $8.5 million – science fiction (drop $10.1 million, 54% down)
- ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ – $7.7 million – fantasy (drop $5.5 million, 42% down)
- ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ – $7.1 million – animated (drop $3.9 million, 35% down)
Total for the Weekend Box Office Top 5 comes to $64.4 million. This is a decline of 13%, dropping $9.8 million, from last weekend’s total of $74.2 million.