Directed by the same director as Thor: Ragnarok Taika Waititi the fourth movie in the Thor franchise makes it debut at the top of the North American box office.

A debut gross of $144.1 Million gives it a better opening than Thor: Ragnarok but its not as good as the last two MCU movies Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness and Spider-Man: No Way Home

After making its debut at the top of the North American box office last weekend the sequel movie to Minions falls one place to number 2 with a weekend gross of $46 Million, a 57% drop on its second weekend.

The movie now has a total gross of $210.6 Million after 2 weekend and is the 5th top movie of 2022.

Still inside the top 3 after 7 weeks of release the Tom Cruise starring sequel to Top Gun drops to number 2 this weekend with $15.5 Million, a 40% drop.

The movie has now taken $597 Million in the US, it will pass $600 Million by next weekend and it is the top movie of 2022 by quite a margin.

It is also on the verge of braking into the top 10 movie of all time in North America as it currently sits at number 12.

The Elvis Presley bio-pic from director Baz Luhrmann falls to number 4 this weeeknd with $11 Million on its 3rd weekend, a 30% drop over last weekend.

The movie has not taken a total gross of $91.3 Million at the North American box office.

As the Dino franchise movie starts to end its run it falls to number 5 this weekend with $8.5 Million, a 46% drop over last weekend, which gives the movie a total US gross of $350 Million.

The movie is currently the 4th top movie of 2022, but it will end up as the lowest grossing of the Jurassic World trilogy of movies behind both Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

1. Thor: Love and Thunder - $144,165,107
2. Minions: The Rise of Gru - $46,128,405
3. Top Gun: Maverick - $15,506,530
4. Elvis - $11,181,071
5. Jurassic World: Dominion - $8,599,175
6. The Black Phone - $7,781,615
7. Lightyear - $3,081,094
8. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On - $322,167
9. Mr. Malcolms List - $255,116
10. Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness - $245,541

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Robert Hyde

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.