A strong second weekend for the MCU movie
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 keeps it at the top of the US box office for a second weekend.
The movie takes $60 Million over the weekend which is a 49% drop, the lowest second weekend drop for an MCU movie in a while, the movies total gross is now over $213 Million.
Remaining at number 2 after 6 weeks of release is the smash hit animated movie The Super Mario Bros. Movie which has now passed the $500 Million milestone at the US box office.
Highest new movie of the weekend is the sequel to Book Club, Book Club 2: The Next Chapter, which has a debut gross of $6.5 Million, half that of the first movie.
Also new this weekend is the Ben Affleck movie Hypnotic at 6 with $2.3 Million, Knights of the Zodiac at 11 with $535,000, BlackBerry at 13 with $473,000 and finally Fool's Paradise at 14 with $443,140.
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 12th - 14th May 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
- The movie remains at Number 1 on this weekends US box office
- It has spent 2 weeks at the top of the US box office.
- It grosses $60,500,000 over the weekend, a 49% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $213,201,178 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took $248,420,911 at the box office after 2 weeks of release.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- The movie remains at Number 2 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $13,000,000 over the weekend, a 30% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $535,959,015 over 6 weeks of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is the 17th top grossing movie of all time in the US.
Book Club 2: The Next Chapter
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weekends US box office chart.
- It grosses $6,500,000 over its debut weekend of release
- The movie is a sequel to Book Club which took $13,582,231 at the box office after 1 weeks of release.
Evil Dead Rise
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 4 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $3,728,000 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $60,188,357 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the 13th top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to Army of Darkness which took $13,582,231 at the box office after 4 weeks of release.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 5 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $2,500,000 over the weekend, a 23% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $16,476,954 over 3 weeks of release
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