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US Box Office Weekend Report 6 - 8 March 2020: New Pixar movie Onward hits the top on its debut but with a lower weekend gross than expected

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Onward
A new Pixar film is always something to watch closely on the box office and this week with the release of Onward the movie hits the top of the US box office but the figures are lower than expect, while The Way Back starring Ben Affleck also gets a high new entry in the top 5.

Onward

With the current spread of the Coronavirus hitting the US the box office was overall lower than it could have been, and despite getting good reviews the new Disney/Pixar movie hit the top with $40 Million over the weekend.

This is certainly on the lower end of a Pixar movie, but those who travel to a movie theatre enjoyed the movie.

Looking forward the road might be tough and the film could end up with a smaller gross despite the movies popularity.

The Invisible Man

As expected the Universal modern monster movie fell to number 2 this week with $15.1 Million over the weekend.

This brings the films total US gross to $52.6 Million after 2 weeks of release.

The Way Back

The Way Back

Landing as number 3 this weekend is the new film starring Ben Affleck and directed by Gavin O'Connor which grosses $8.5 Million over its debut.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Falling to number 4 after 4 weeks of release is the video game adaptation which takes $8 Million taking its total to a very good $140.8 Million.

The Call Of The Wild

Harrison Ford stars in the movie at number 5 with a weekend gross of $7 Million taking the films total gross ot $57.4 Million after 3 weeks of release.

Parasite

The Oscar winning film spends its 21st weekend on the box office making it the film with the longest run, its total gross is $52.8 Million.

Jumanji: The Next Level

The film with the highest total gross this week sits at number 12 with $315.8 Million after 13 weeks.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

  1. Onward - $39,119,861
  2. The Invisible Man - $15,132,340
  3. The Way Back - $8,170,315
  4. Sonic the Hedgehog - $7,704,067
  5. The Call of the Wild - $6,762,405
  6. Emma. - $4,805,785
  7. Bad Boys For Life - $3,022,087
  8. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) - $2,137,794
  9. Impractical Jokers: The Movie - $1,845,000
  10. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising - $1,704,205
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