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Bullet Train moves to the top of the North American box office

2022-08-16T13:28:44.697Z


The action film halves its receipts but retains the box office lead, far ahead of Krypto and the Super Animals and Top Gun: Maverick.


The action film

Bullet Train

from Sony studios continues its march forward at the top of the North American box office for its second week of operation, according to estimates on Sunday from the specialized firm Exhibitor Relations.

Adaptation of a successful Japanese novel, the feature film depicts seven murderers, more or less pursued by bad luck, who try to kill each other on a high-speed train between Tokyo and Kyoto.

Last blockbuster scheduled for the summer, the film which stars Brad Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson or even Sandra Bullock, recorded 13.4 million dollars in revenue for its second weekend in dark rooms, half less than last week but still nearly double the number two ranked

Krypto and the Super Animals

.

The animated film, with the voices of several stars, such as Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, follows the adventures of Krypto, Superman's dog, who must rescue the superhero along with other four-legged characters.

It earned $7.2 million in revenue.

In third place,

Top Gun: Maverick

bounces back three spots after 12 weeks in North American theaters and is hot on the heels of

Krypto

with $7.1 million.

The sequel to

Top Gun

, Thirty-six Years Later, was critically acclaimed.

Tom Cruise still plays US Navy test pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, now a captain, who must train younger pilots to bomb a rogue country's uranium enrichment plant.

Then comes fourth,

Thor: Love and Thunder

,

the latest episode in the saga of the Norse Hammer God played by Chris Hemsworth, accompanied by Natalie Portman and Christian Bale.

The Marvel film collected 5.3 million for its sixth week of exploitation.

The unclassifiable

Nope

 by director Jordan Peele, which oscillates between horror and science fiction, ranks fifth with $5.3 million for its fourth week of exploitation.

Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya portrays a horse trainer frightened by the appearance of mysterious phenomena in the sky of his ranch.

But he and his sister (Keke Palmer) are torn between fear and the desire to reach glory by capturing these scenes for social networks.

Releases are gradually returning to a normal pace since the coronavirus pandemic plagued the movie industry, but the schedule remains relatively

"light

," according to Franchise Entertainment Research's box office newsletter.

"There's no doubt the box office would be bigger with more films coming out of the studios

," she says.

Here is the rest of the Top 10:

6 -

Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru

($4.9 million)

7 -

Where the crayfish sing

(4 million)

8 -

Bodies Bodies Bodies

(3.3 million)

9 -

Elvis

(2.6 million)

10 -

Fall

(2.5 million)

SEE ALSO

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Source: lefigaro

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