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Top of the new releases was Sing 2 which came in at 2, followed by The Matrix Resurrections which was new at 3.
British movie The King's Man was new at number 4 and then finally in the top 5 American Underdog came in just below.
Also new this week is A Journal For Jordan which came in at 8 with $2.2 Million and '83 from director Kabir Khan came in at 10 with $1.76 Million.
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US box office weekend top 5 breakdown 24th - 26th December 2021
The smash hit Marvel/Sony movie spends a second weekend at the top of the US box office with a weekend gross of $81.5 Million, a 69% drop over last weekend which isn't too bad considering the giant debut gross the movie had.
The movie has now taken a total gross in the US of $467.3 Million making it now by far the top grossing movie of 2021 having grossed twice as much as the movie at number 2 for the year, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
The movie also this weekend enters the top 20 US movies of all time at number 19.
Highest new entry of the weekend is the animated sequel movie which takes $23.7 Million on its debut.
The film is a sequel to the 2017 movie Sing which took $35.2 Million in North America on its debut on its way to $634.2 Million over 9 weeks.
The long awaited follow up to the highly successful Matrix series of movies makes its debut this weekend at number 3 with $12 Million.
The pre hype for the movie was sky high, but an luke warm response on its release, and a simultaneous HBO Max release has by the looks of it damaged its box office potentital.
A prequel to the Kingsmen movies lands at number 4 this weekend with a gross of $6.3 Million.
Matthew Vaughn directs once again, but Ralph Fiennes takes over in the lead role this time, but diminishing returns seems to have set in for this series.
Making its debut at number 5 this weekend is this inspirational movie starring Zachary Levi about a down on his luck potential NFL great, the movie takes $6.2 Million on its debut.
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