The Brad Pitt action film 'Bullet Train' led all movies in ticket sales for a second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while a quiet spell in theatres and incredible staying power allowed 'Top Gun: Maverick' to rocket back into third place in its 12th week of release.
The Brad Pitt action film "Bullet Train" led all movies in ticket sales for a second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while a quiet spell in theatres and incredible staying power allowed "Top Gun: Maverick" to rocket back into third place in its 12th week of release.
Three new films went into wide release but none cracked the top five films. The slowdown -- an expected but still acute late-summer downturn in big releases -- gave plenty of airspace for the year's biggest movie, "Maverick," to make another fly-by in theatres. The uncommonly long run for "Top Gun: Maverick" is even rarer at a time when studios have shrunk theatrical windows, typically sending movies to streaming services after about 45 days in theatres.
But while "Top Gun: Maverick" has been a boon to theatres recovering from the pandemic, the thinly scheduled dog days of August -- and potentially a chunk of September -- will pose a test to the industry. This weekend, the biggest new film in nationwide theatres was A24's "Bodies Bodies Bodies," a Gen Z horror comedy that expanded to 1,269 locations after last week's opening in limited release. It came in eighth with $3.3 million.
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