Real life band sensation turned animated feature
KPop Demon Hunters makes its debut at the top of the North American box office at number one with a reasonable $18 Million debut.
Its not uncommon for K-Pop bands to hit the box office in live concerts shown in cinemas but this is a 90 minute animated movie featuring a female K-Pop band.
After spending a couple of weeks at the top Weapons falls to second place with a weekend gross of $15.5 Million taking to movies gross ot over $100 Million at the US box office.
US Box Office QuickView
- Number 1 - KPop Demon Hunters (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - KPop Demon Hunters (@1)
- Longest run - F1 (9 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Superman ($346,975,181)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Jurassic World: Rebirth (-29%)
- Total US top 15 this weekend - $76,971,224
- Also new this weekend
- Check out the full US box office.
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 22nd - 24th August 2025
KPop Demon Hunters
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weekends US box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
- It grosses $18,000,000 over the weekend, a % drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $18,000,000 after 1 weekends of release
Weapons~2026
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 2 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $15,600,000 over the weekend, a 36% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $115,880,823 after 3 weekends of release
- The movie is the 14th top grossing film so far in 2025
Freakier Friday
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 3 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $9,200,000 over the weekend, a 36% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $70,540,708 after 3 weekends of release
- The movie is a sequel to Freaky Friday which took $74,431,693 at the box office after 3 weekends of release.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
- The movie remains at Number 4 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $5,900,000 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $257,251,951 after 5 weekends of release
- The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2025
The Bad Guys 2
- The movie remains at Number 5 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $5,100,000 over the weekend, a 32% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $66,178,030 after 4 weekends of release
This weeks top 10 US Box Office films
- KPop Demon Hunters - $18,000,000
- Weapons - $15,401,136
- Freakier Friday - $8,896,175
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps - $6,008,949
- The Bad Guys 2 - $5,108,195
- Nobody 2 - $3,710,410
- Superman - $3,410,564
- Honey Don't! - $3,025,525
- The Naked Gun - $2,986,723
- Jurassic World: Rebirth - $2,112,865
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Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
