Weekend Box Office Results: August 5-7, 2022

The Brad Pitt Action-comedy Had a Decent Opening for an R-rated Original Property, but It Remains to Be Seen if It Has Staying Power.

Weekend Box Office Results: August 5-7, 2022

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 54% Bullet Train (2022)

• $30.1 million ($30.1 million total)

 72% DC League of Super-Pets (2022)

• $11.2 million ($45.1 million total)

 82% Nope (2022)

• $8.5 million ($98 million total)

 65% Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

• $7.6 million ($316 million total)

 70% Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)

• $7.1 million ($334.6 million total)

 96% Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

• $7 million ($662.5 million total)

 33% Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

• $5.7 million ($64.6 million total)

 45% Easter Sunday (2022)

• $5.3 million ($5.3 million total)

 78% Elvis (2022)

• $4 million ($136.5 million total)

 83% The Black Phone (2021)

• $1.5 million ($85.9 million total)

Out of the top 10, we have A24’s Bodies Bodies Bodies which launched in just six theaters this weekend with $227,000. That’s a $38,000 per-theater-average that ranks as the fourth best of the year behind Louis C.K.’s Fourth of July, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The 91%-approved horror comedy will be opening wider next week after the studio’s Marcel The Shell With Shoes On has only pulled in under $5 million after seven weeks of a slow burn rollout.

Beyond Bodies Bodies Bodies getting a wider launch next week, the new additions to the box office could be pretty muted. Two friends find themselves trapped atop a radio tower 2,000 feet in the air in Fall. There is Diane Keaton in a reverse body switch movie where a young lady wishes to be a 70-year-old woman in Mack & Rita. Sundance represents with James Ponsoldt’s tale of young female friendship mixed with some horror, Summering, along with Aubrey Plaza in the credit card fraud thriller, Emily the Criminal. Finally, Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial will be re-released on IMAX screens across the country.