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US Box Office Weekend Report 29th - 31st October 2021: Dune stays at the top for a second weekend with My Hero Academia the top new movie

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Dune
Holding a strong lead over the US box office this weekend Dune stays at the top for a second weekend while My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission is the top new movie at number 4.

Also new this week is Antlers at number 6 with $4.2 Million and Last Night In Soho at number 7 with a debut gross of $4.1 Million.

US box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Dune (2nd weekend)
  • Highest debut - My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (@4)
  • Longest run - Free Guy (12 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ($222.7 Million)

North American top 5 breakdown box office weekend 29th - 31st October 2021

Dune

Dune

Easily taking a second weekend at the top of the US box office Denis Villeneuve's vision of the classic sci-fi noval takes $15.5 Million, a 61% drop over last weekend.

The movie, which has just has a sequel green lit, has now taken $69.4 Million at the US box office on its way to $100 Million which it should have by next weekend.

Halloween Kills

It was the Halloween weekend and the namesake movie hanks onto the box office number 2 slot for a second week with a gross of $8.5 Million, a very good 41% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross of $85.6 Million over its 3 weeks of release which is looking good for the third part of the new trilogy, Halloween Ends, which is set for release in 2022.

No Time to Die

The latest Bond movie hald firm at number 3 with a $7.8 Million weekend gross, a very slim 34% drop over last weekend.

The movie has taken $133.3 Million in the US over 4 weeks of release and is the 6th top movie of 2021.

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission

Highest new movie of the weekend comes in at number 4 this week with the Japanese superhero manga comic book adaptation.

The animated movie takes a very good $6.4 Million over the weekend.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Sony's Spiderverse villain movie falls to number 5 this weekend with a gross of $5.7 Million, a slim 37% drop over last week, giving the movie a 5 weekend total of $190.4 Million and the 2nd top movie of 2021 having overtaken Black Widow.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

  1. Dune - $15,413,486
  2. Halloween Kills - $8,743,355
  3. No Time To Die - $7,753,194
  4. My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission - $6,403,286
  5. Venom: Let There Be Carnage - $5,750,556
  6. Antlers - $4,271,346
  7. Last Night In Soho - $4,178,460
  8. Ron's Gone Wrong - $3,744,109
  9. The Addams Family 2 - $3,080,016
  10. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun - $2,602,152
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