Highest New Movie of the Weekend

Highest new movie of the weekend and the new number 1 movie is the DC animated feature which takes the top of the North American box office with $23 Million.

Director Jordan Peele's third movie entered the box office at number 1 last weekend but slips to second place on its second week of release.

The movie takes $18.5 Million this weekend which is a steep 58% drop over last weekend and this brings the movies total gross to $80 Million.

The latest in the MCU series of movies spends its 4th weekend on the top 5 as it slips to number 3 with $13 Million, a 42% drop over last weekend.

The movie has now taken �301.6 Million on its North America run which makes it the 6th top movie of 2022.

Comparing the movie to Thor: Ragnarok which had taken $277 Million 4 weeks into its run this movie is ahead.

The animated sequel takes $10 Million over the weekend, its 5th on the box office, which is a 39% drop from the previous weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross of $320 Million, it is the 5th top movie of 2022 so far.

Compared to Minions from 2015 this movie is ahead of its $302 Million it had grossed 5 weeks into its run.

The biggest hit of the year so far as the Tom Cruise starring movie falls to number 5 this weekend with $8.4 Million over the weekend, a very low 18% drop for a movie which is 10 weeks old.

This gives the movie $650 Million in total and it is the top movie of 2022 by a large margin.

Compared to 1986's Top Gun, and adjusted for inflation, this movie is well behind its $235 Million ($95 Million actual).

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

1. DC League of Super-Pets - $23,003,441
2. Nope - $18,588,875
3. Thor: Love and Thunder - $13,176,531
4. Minions: The Rise of Gru - $10,963,545
5. Top Gun: Maverick - $8,407,590
6. Where the Crawdad's Sing - $7,568,452
7. Elvis - $5,743,350
8. The Black Phone - $2,499,865
9. Jurassic World: Dominion - $2,150,025
10. Vengeance - $1,755,325

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6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.

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