{"id":44459,"date":"2022-08-13T19:54:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bullet-train-leads-box-office-weekend-as-top-gun-2-rockets-up-chart-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T19:54:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:54:40","slug":"bullet-train-leads-box-office-weekend-as-top-gun-2-rockets-up-chart-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bullet-train-leads-box-office-weekend-as-top-gun-2-rockets-up-chart-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullet Train Leads Box Office Weekend as Top Gun 2 Rockets Up Chart \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tDavid Leitch’s action-packed Bullet Train<\/em>starring Brad Pitt as a hellbent assassin, is leading a quiet weekend at the North American box office.<\/p>\n

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\tIn normal times, Hollywood studios would continue to release event films throughout August. This year is different as the entertainment business emerges from the pandemic and grapples with production and post-production delays. <\/p>\n

\n\tBullet Train<\/em> is considered the last big Hollywood studio title of summer 2022. The film is doing OK business and should earn $13 million this weekend from 4,357 theaters for a 10-day domestic total of $54.2 million. One hitch: even with little competition, Bullet Train looks to fall more than 57 percent from its opening weekend, although that isn’t unusual for a male-skewing action pic. The movie earned $3.9 million on Friday.<\/p>\n

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\tElsewhere, Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> is making an impressive comeback in its 12th weekend, thanks to upping its theater count from 2,760 to 3,181 locations, including premium screen venues, as part of a special fan appreciation event. The Paramount and Skydance movie is pacing to earn $6.6 million for the weekend from 3,181 cinemas for a second-place finish. It’s certain now that the Tom Cruise movie will jump the $700 million mark domestically. (Globally, it has earned north of $1.35 billion, one of the best showings of all time.)<\/p>\n

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\tholdovers DC League of Super Pets<\/em>, nope<\/em> and Thor: Love and Thunder<\/em> are expected to round out the top five. <\/p>\n

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\tOther titles cracking the top 10 chart include A24’s specialty movie bodies<\/em> bodies<\/em> bodies<\/em>, which looks to come in No. 8 with an estimated $3 million from 928 theaters. Directed by Halina Reijn, the black comedy turns the slasher genre on its head and stars Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Pete Davidson, Rachel Sennott, Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders and Lee Pace. A24 is rolling out the film slowly throughout the month; it began its run in a smattering of cinemas last weekend.<\/p>\n

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\tAnother new offering this weekend is Lionsgate’s fall<\/em>, an adventure-thriller about a group of climbers. The movie, directed by Scott Mann and starring Grace Caroline Currey and Virginia Gardner, may fall outside the top 10 with a projected $2 million debut from 1,548 locations.<\/p>\n

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\tIndie distributor Gravitas Ventures is also taking advantage of the slowdown in summer tentpole fare. The company is releasing Mack and Rita<\/em> in roughly 2,000 theaters, albeit to dismal results. The adult-skewing comedy \u2014 starring Elizabeth Lail as a 30-year-old woman who wakes up after a bachelorette party to discover she is 70 years old, with the older version of herself played by Diane Keaton \u2014 may not even get to $1 million in its box office debut. <\/p>\n

\n\tfall<\/em> received a B CinemaScore from audiences, while Mack and Rita<\/em> flunked with a rare D+.<\/p>\n

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\tthat would put Mack and Rita<\/em> behind this weekend’s release of ET the Extra-Terrestrial<\/em>which looks to earn $1.1 or $1.2 million from only 389 theaters.<\/p>\n

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\tWeekend numbers will be updated Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n