NEW YORK — The Brad Pitt motion movie “Bullet Train” led all films in ticket gross sales for a second straight weekend, in line with studio estimates Sunday, whereas a quiet spell in theaters and unimaginable endurance allowed “Top Gun: Maverick” to rocket again into third place in its twelfth week of launch.
After launching the earlier weekend with about $30 million on the field workplace, “Bullet Train” pulled in $13.4 million in its second go-around. David Leitch’s assassin-crowded movie, made for $90 million, has grossed $54.4 million in two weeks for Sony Pictures. Globally, “Bullet Train” has grossed $114.5 million.
Three new movies went into broad launch however none cracked the highest 5 movies. The slowdown — an anticipated however nonetheless acute late-summer downturn in massive releases — gave loads of airspace for the yr’s greatest film, “Maverick,” to make one other fly-by in theaters.
Nearly three months after opening in May, Paramount Pictures put the “Top Gun” sequel again on a lot of large-format screens and elevated its theater depend from 2,760 to three,181. It got here away with $7.2 million, bringing its cumulative complete to $673.8 million. Paramount’s greatest smash ever, “Maverick” sits at seventh all-time in home field workplace, not accounting for inflation, proper above “Titanic” and just under “Avengers: Infinity War.”
The uncommonly future for “Top Gun: Maverick” is even rarer at a time when studios have shrunk theatrical home windows, usually sending films to streaming providers after about 45 days.
“Top Gun: Maverick” was very narrowly edged for second place by Warner Bros.’ “DC League of Super-Pets.” Warner Bros. estimated Sunday that its animated film took in $7.17 million in its third week of launch, only a nostril above the $7.15 million for “Maverick.” Final figures Monday ought to break the near-tie.
But whereas “Top Gun: Maverick” has been a boon to theaters recovering from the pandemic, the thinly scheduled canine days of August — and probably a piece of September — will pose a check to the trade. This weekend, the largest new movie in nationwide theaters was A24’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” a Gen Z horror comedy that expanded to 1,269 places after final week’s opening in restricted launch. It got here in eighth with $3.3 million.
Lionsgate’s “The Fall,” about two buddies stranded atop a 2,000-foot radio tower, debuted with $2.5 million. Diane Keaton’s body-swap comedy “Mack & Rita” opened with simply $1 million in ticket gross sales for Gravitas Ventures.
In general gross sales it was the bottom ticket-selling weekend of the summer time. With few new broad releases on faucet — together with two Idris Elba titles: the safari thriller “Beast” (Aug. 19) and George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” (Aug. 26) — moviegoing is prone to sluggish additional within the coming weeks.
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