The latest, and last, animated film,
The Boy and the Heron, from celebrated director Hayao Miyazaki hits the top of the US box office on its debut weekend with $12.8 Million.
This is by far the greatest US opening for a movie from Studio Ghibli who's previous top opening was Ponyo from 2008 which took $3.5 Million on its opening
Last weekends top movie Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé falls to number 6 this weekend and has taken $28 Million in total grosses after 2 weekends.
US Box Office QuickView
- Number 1 - The Boy and the Heron (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - The Boy and the Heron (@1)
- Longest run - The Marvels (5 weeks)
- Highest total gross - The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes ($135,655,926)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Trolls Band Together (-18%)
- Total US top 15 this weekend - $68,491,668
- Also new this weekend
- Check out the full US box office.
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 8th - 10th December 2023
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weekends US box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
- It has a total gross of $12,836,313 after 1 weekends of release
- The movie remains at Number 2 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $9,400,000 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $135,655,926 after 4 weekends of release
- The movie is the 19th top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 which took $244,604,272 at the box office after 4 weekends of release.
- The movie remains at Number 3 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $8,342,710 over the weekend, a 24% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $25,344,044 after 2 weekends of release
- The movie remains at Number 4 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $6,200,000 over the weekend, a 18% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $83,081,775 after 4 weekends of release
- The movie is a sequel to Trolls World Tour which took $3,060,000 at the box office after 4 weekends of release.
- The movie remains at Number 5 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $5,300,000 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $49,412,846 after 3 weekends of release
This weeks top 10 US Box Office films
- The Boy and the Heron - $12,972,683
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - $9,296,441
- Godzilla Minus One - $8,591,413
- Trolls Band Together - $6,088,410
- Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé - $5,475,265
- Wish - $5,303,161
- Napoleon - $4,116,137
- Waitress: The Musical - $2,565,770
- Animal - $2,483,326
- The Shift - $2,120,961
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Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
