Two years on from the original and the sequel hits the top spot on its debut, although with less impact and less favourable reviews.
The Andy Muschietti directed movie takes $185 Million on its global debut from 76 countries.
The franchise movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham falls to 2 this week with $19.4 Million from 76 countries.
After 6 weeks of release the movie has now taken a very respectable $719.7 Million which puts it on the lower end of the Fast & Furious movies.
Disneys remake continues to pull in audiences across the world as it take $17.5 Million from 51 countries on its 9the weekend.
The film is now at $1.59 Billion total gross and it will become only the 7th movie to cross $1.6 Billion.
Quentin Tarantino's most successful film to date is at number 4 this week with a weekend gross of $15.1 Million from 60 countries taking its total to $310.5 after 7 weeks.
Falling to number 5 after 3 weeks of release in the threequel movie starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman which takes $8 Million from 44 countries pushing its total to $97.3 Million.
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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.