This weekend at the North American box office
Alien: Romulus makes its debut at the top with a $42 Million debut gross.
This is a good start to the new Alien franchise movie with the previous movie Alien: Covenant making its debut with a $36.1 Million gross.
Deadpool and Wolverine get knocked down to number 2 this weekend as the movie takes $30 Million on its 4th weekend and has a $546.8 Million total.
Inside Out 2 stays on the top 15 movies this week and has taken $642.4 Million to date.
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 16th - 18th August 2024
Alien: Romulus
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weekends US box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
- It grosses $42,003,361 over the weekend, a % drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $42,003,361 after 1 weekends of release
- The movie is a sequel to Alien: Covenant which took $36,160,621 at the box office after 1 weekends of release.
Deadpool & Wolverine
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 2 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $30,003,064 over the weekend, a 44% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $546,819,959 after 4 weekends of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie is a sequel to Deadpool 2 which took $279,164,058 at the box office after 4 weekends of release.
It Ends With Us
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 3 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $23,807,130 over the weekend, a 52% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $97,591,827 after 2 weekends of release
- The movie is the 13th top grossing film so far in 2024
Twisters
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 4 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $10,000,340 over the weekend, a 33% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $238,639,655 after 5 weekends of release
- The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie is a sequel to Twister which took $187,288,498 at the box office after 5 weekends of release.
Coraline
- The movie goes up the chart to Number 5 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $9,611,555 over the weekend, a % drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $12,526,116 after 10 weekends of release
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