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US Box Office Weekend Report 2nd July - 4th July 2021: Fast 9 stays at the top with Boss Baby 2 the top new movie at number 2

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Fast and Furious 9
The Fast Saga kept its hold on the US box office for at least one more week before the release of the MCU movie Black Widow while top new movie of the weekend is the sequel Box Baby 2.

Also new this weekend is The Forever Purge which makes it debut at number 3 while outside the top 5 documentaries Zola and Summer of Soul ( Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) make new entries at 10 and 11.

US box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Fast and Furious 9 (2nd weekend)
  • Highest debut - Boss Baby 2 (@2)
  • Longest run - Nobody (15 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - A Quiet Place Part II ($144.4 Million)

Us box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th July 2021

Fast and Furious 9

remaining at the top for a second weekend is the 9th instalment in the Fast and Furious series which this weekend took $24 Million, a 66% drop from last weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross of $117.1 Million after 2 weeks of release, it is on tract to join the other recent Fast movies but because of the pandemic might not get to the heights of the top grossing in the series Fast and Furious 8.

Boss Baby 2

Boss Baby 2

Top new movie of the weekend is the sequel movie to Boss Baby from 2017 which takes $17.3 Million on its debut.

The original movie was a big blockbuster and took $50 Million on its debut on its way to $175 Million, comparisons are currently unfair during the pandemic.

The Forever Purge

The fifth movie in The Purge series makes its debut at number 3 this weekend with $12.7 Million which is close to the debut weekend of The FIrst Purge from 2019, not bad considering the pandemic.

The movie series has become a firm favourite and the future of the movie could be good in the coming weeks.

A Quiet Place Part II

Dropping to number 4 this week is the highly praised horror movie which takes $4.2 Million this weekend, a 32% drop from last weekend.

The movie has been on the box office for 6 weeks now and has taken $144 Million, it is currently the top movie of the year but is getting challenged by Fast and Furious 9 and will get another competitor this weekend with Black Widow.

The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Dropping to number 5 this weekend is the sequel movie which takes $3 Million on its 3rd weekend of release, a 38% drop over last weekend, for a $31 Million US total.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

  1. Fast and Furious 9 - $24,000,000
  2. The Boss Baby 2: Family Business - $17,300,000
  3. The Forever Purge - $12,750,000
  4. A Quiet Place: Part II - $4,225,000
  5. The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard - $3,000,000
  6. Cruella - $2,556,000
  7. Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway - $2,250,000
  8. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - $1,290,000
  9. In the Heights - $1,275,000
  10. Zola - $1,230,000
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