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US Box Office Analysis 16 - 18 August 2019: Comedy Good Boys tops the box office on its debut weekend with $21 Million

US Box Office Analysis 16 - 18 August 2019:  Comedy Good Boys tops the box office on its debut weekend with $21 Million
Good Boys
As the summer season starts to comes to an end the comedy film Good Boys makes its debut at the top knocking Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs And Shaw down to second place.

Good Boys

Taking over at the top of the US box office this week is this R rated comedy from director Gene Stupnitsky and starring youngsters Jacob Tremblay and Keith L. Williams.

The film taps into a similar audience to films like Superbad and Pineapple Express and makes its debut with $21 Million.

Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs And Shaw

The Fast & Furious franchise movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham spent 2 weeks at number 1 and falls to number 2 this week with a $14.1 Milion weekend.

This brings the films total to $133.7 Million after 3 weeks of release.

The Lion King

Disney's mega smash remake falls to number 3 this week with a gross of $11.9 Million pushing the films total to an incredible $496.1 Million and knocking on the door of an incredible half billion dollars.

The Angry Birds Movie 2

The Angry Birds Movie 2

Making its American debut this week is the sequel movie to the 2016 hit film which lands at number 4 with $10.5 Million.

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

Falling to number 5 this week is the horror movie which was the highest new film last week, a $10 Million second weekend takes to total to $40.2 Million.

Toy Story 4

Pixars sequel movie falls to number 14 this weekend but has taken an incredible $424.4 Million after 8 weeks of release.

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