Top new movie of the weekend is the sequel movie Downton Abbey: A New Era which makes its debut at number 2 this weekend.
Also making a debut in the top 5 is Men while outside the top 5 at number 13 is 2000 Mules with $765,000.
US box office top 5 weekend breakdown 20th - 22nd May 2022
Sitting at the top of the North American box office for a third straight weekend is the latest MCU movie event which this weekend takes $31.6 Million, a 49% drop over last weekend.
The movie has now taken a huge $342 Million in total in the US, which far outstips the total US gross of the first movies $232.6 Million.
The movie has also this weekend taken over as the top movie of 2022 in North America.
Making its debut at number 2 this weekend is the sequel to the 2019 movie Downton Abbey which was the first big screen outing of the much loved TV show.
The sequel takes $16 Million on its debut which is half that of the original movie, a sign of diminishing returns.
It would seem that the only series of movies which bucks the trend of sequels not doing as well as the original is anything Disney release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, even the sequel trilogy of Star Wars movies took less as each movie was released!
The DreamWorks animated hit movie falls to number 3 this weekend with $6 Million, a small 13% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a US total gross of $74.3 Million after 5 weeks of release.
The blue hedgehog and friends fall a single place to number 4 this weekend with $3.9 Million, a small 15% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total gross of $181 Million.
The movie is the 4th top grossing film of 2022 in the US.
Finally on the top 5 and making its debut is the latest film from celebrated director Alex Garland which takes $3.2 Million in its debut.
The directors last movie Annihilation which starred Natalie Portman made its debut in February 2018 and took $11 Million on its first weekend of release.
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