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US Box Office Weekend Report 16th - 18th September 2022: The Woman King makes its debut at the top of the North American box office with $19 Million

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The Woman King
The Woman King makes its debut this weekend at the top of the North American box office while horror movie Pearl is also new at number 3 and See How They Run~2022 is one place behind at number 4.

Outside the top 5 there is Moonage Daydream, the David Bowie documentary making its debut at 10 with $1.2 Million and Running the Bases a new entry at 15 with $538,749.

US box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - The Woman King (1st Weekend)
  • Highest debut - The Woman King (@10)
  • Longest run - Top Gun: Maverick (17 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Top Gun: Maverick ($709.1 Million)

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 16th - 19th September 2022

The Woman King

Highest New Movie This Weekend

Making its way to the top of the North American box office on its debut weekend is the Viola Davis starring movie directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.

The movie starts its box office run with a debut gross of $19 Million.

After making its debut at the top last weekend the horror movie from director Zach Cregger falls 38% to number 2 with a gross of $6.5 Million.

This gives the movie a total gross of $21 Million after 2 weeks of release.

Director Ti West releases his second movie in the X horror series which lands on the box office at number 2 with a debut gross of $3.1 million.

The previous movie in the series from March of this year landed at number 4 with $4.4 Million.

See How They Run

Coming in at number 4 this weekend is the comedy murder mystery that stars Saoirse Ronan and is directed by Tom George.

the movie lands on the North American box office at number 4 this weekend with $3 Million.

Finally on the top 5 this week is the Brad Pitt starring movie that falls from number 3 with a weekend gross of $2.5 Million, a 23% drop on its 7th weekend.

The movie has a total US gross of $96.4 Million as it tries to reach the $100 Million milestone which it could do by next weekend.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

  1. The Woman King - $19,051,442
  2. Barbarian - $6,500,188
  3. Pearl - $3,124,600
  4. See How They Run - $3,007,657
  5. Bullet Train - $2,550,492
  6. Top Gun: Maverick - $2,242,510
  7. DC League of Super-Pets - $2,179,521
  8. The Invitation - $1,768,274
  9. Minions: The Rise of Gru - $1,392,110
  10. Moonage Daydream - $1,230,145
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