LOS ANGELES, United States — Universal’s
new horror flick “Nope” opened atop the
North American box office, hammering
the latest edition of Marvel’s “Thor” franchise to earn an estimated $44
million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.
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The alien-invasion
sci-fi mystery, which features a Black family struggling to make ends meet on
their bleached
California horse ranch, is the highly-anticipated latest effort
by writer and director Jordan Peele, whose 2017 debut “Get Out” earned rave
reviews.
“This is an
excellent opening for an original horror movie,” said analyst David A. Gross of
Franchise Entertainment Research.
The film — which
stars
Daniel Kaluuya, who stole the show in “Get Out” — managed to bump “Thor:
Love and Thunder” to second spot after the superhero blockbuster spent two
weeks at number one.
The action comedy
starring a muscle-clad, self-parodying Chris Hemsworth as the space viking who
finds himself pining for his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), pulled
in $22.1 million for the Friday-to-Sunday period, for a worldwide cumulative
total of $276 million.
Third spot belonged
to “Minions: The Rise of Gru.” The latest goofy installment in Universal’s
animated “
Despicable Me” franchise took in $17.7 million, for a cumulative
total of $298 million.
“Where the Crawdads
Sing” also slipped one spot, to fourth. Sony’s adaptation of Delia Owens’ novel
about an abandoned girl who grows up in marshland of 1950s and 60s North
Carolina and, at a murder trial years later looks back on that rough and
violent upbringing, earned $10.3 million.
Dropping from
fourth to fifth was Paramount’s “
Top Gun: Maverick,” the crowd-pleasing sequel
to the original 1986 film that once again features Tom Cruise as cocky US Navy
test pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.
The fighter ace
feature, in its ninth week in theaters, has now grossed an eye-popping $635
million worldwide.
Baz Luhrmann’s
music biopic “Elvis” — starring Austin Butler as the King alongside Tom Hanks
as his exploitative manager, Colonel Tom Parker — took sixth in the Warner Bros
film’s fifth weekend of release, at $6.3 million.
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