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Box-Office Weekend: Bullet Train Tops Chart

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Another newcomer assumed the top spot of the box-office weekend as Bullet Train debuted at number one, besting the second-place film by $18.9 million.

The action/comedy/thriller starring Brad Pitt, Bullet Train debuted on top of the box-office weekend with $30.1 million. This easily sent last weekend’s number one film, DC League of Super-Pets to a distant second-place with $11.2 million. But, fear not, the super critters still have a two-week total of $45.1 million to show for their troubles. Meanwhile, Nope was relegated to third place with $8.5 million and a three-week tally of $98.0 million. Also falling a spot to finish in fourth place was Thor: Love and Thunder which added $7.6 million over the weekend to raise its five-week total to $316.1 million. Rounding out the top five was last weekend’s fourth-place film, Minions: The Rise of Gru, which managed to bring in $7.1 million over the weekend, lifting its six-week total to $334.6 million.

Falling out of the top five for the first time in a very long time was Top Gun: Maverick, which finished just behind the minions in sixth place with $7.0 million. This gives the Tom Cruise film an eleven-week total of $662.5 million. added $8.2 million over the weekend to bring its ten-week total to an impressive $650.1 million. Similarly dropping from sixth to seventh, was the critical hit Where the Crawdads Sing with $5.6 million. The film now boasts a four-week total of $64.6 million. In eighth place was the weekend’s second new film, Easter Sunday, which debuted to the tune of $5.3 million. Dropping two spots to finish in ninth-place was Elvis, which added another $4.0 million over the weekend to bring its seven-week total to $136.5 million. Finally, The Black Phone slipped from eighth- to tenth-place bringing in $1.5 million over the weekend. This gives the horror film a seven-week total of $85.9 million.

Again, only two films were pushed out of the weekend box-office top ten as Jurassic World Dominion took leave of the list with a nine-week total of $371.8 million. Meanwhile, Vengeance drops from the top ten in only its second week of release with $3.3 million to show for two weeks in theaters.

Weekend Box Office (August 5th – August 7th)

  1. Bullet Train…$30.1 Million
  2. DC League of Super-Pets…$11.2 Million
  3. Nope…$8.5 Million
  4. Thor: Love and Thunder…$7.6 Million
  5. Minions: The Rise of Gru…$7.1 Million
  6. Top Gun: Maverick…$7.0 Million
  7. Where the Crawdads Sing…$5.6 Million
  8. Easter Sunday…$5.3 Million
  9. Elvis…$4.0 Million
  10. The Black Phone…$1.5 Million

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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