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US Box Office Weekend Report 21st - 23rd August 2020: Russell Crowe and SpongeBob swap places in a box office thats starting to look more like pre-COVID-19 days

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Unhinged
Unhinged takes the honor as being the first 'wide' release of the pandemic era as the Russell Crowe movie goes to the top of the box office knocking SpongeBob into second place.

Elsewhere on the chart Words On Bathroom Walls is the top new film while Cut Throat City is also new inside the top 5.

Here is the top 5 US movies 21st - 23rd August 2020.

Unhinged

A new entry at number 2 last week thanks to its Canadian release the movie expands into over 1800 American movie theatres this week and with seating capacity limits due to social distancing and with people still wary of going to indoor movie theatres the movie takes $4 Million over the weekend.

The Derrick Borte has now taken $5.05 Million and is now by far the most success film during the pandemic to hit theatres.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run

A new entry at number 1 last week on its Canadian release the movie falls to number 2 this week again thanks to being released in US movie theatres and takes $550K over the weekend.

Two weeks in and the animated feature takes $1.4 Million.

Words On Bathroom Walls

Words On Bathroom Walls

Highest new film of the weekend is director Thor Freudenthal new movie which enters the weekend US box office at number 3 with $462K.

The Goonies

Re-entering the box office again is the 1985 Richard Donner classic which is at number 4 this weekend with $260K, the movie has now taken over $63 Million in the US.

Cut Throat City

Directed by rapper RZA and starring Eiza Gonzalez and Ethan Hawke this new movie enters the box office at number 5 with a weekend gross of $240K.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

  1. Unhinged - $4,060,000
  2. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run - $550,000
  3. Words On Bathroom Walls - $462,050
  4. The Goonies - $260,000
  5. Cut Throat City - $240,000
  6. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - $230,000
  7. Peninsula - $210,000
  8. Jurassic Park - $180,000
  9. Back to the Future - $140,000
  10. The Tax Collector - $121,800
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