US Box Office Weekend Report 2nd - 4th September 2022: AS summer winds down Top Gun Maverick goes back to the top on its 15th weekend with Spider-Man: No Way Home the top new movie!
Robert Hyde | 7th September 2022
As the big new movies dry up the box office sees a load of older movies rebounding on the box office which includes the movie of the year Top Gun: Maverick going back to the top of its 15th weekend of release.
Spider Man: No Way Home gets a re-release and is the top new movie of the weekend, despite it being a re-release, and lands at number 3 while Jaws enters the box office with a weekend gross of $2.6 Million.
The top movie of the weekend which has never been released before is Honk For Jesus Save Your Soul which makes its debut at number 14 with $1.4 Million.
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- Number 1 - Top Gun Maverick (3rd Weekend (non consecutive))
- Highest debut - Spider Man: No Way Home (@3 (Extra footage re-release))
- Longest run - Top Gun: Maverick (15 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Spider Man: No Way Home ($811 Million)
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th September 2022
Top Gun: Maverick
Climbing back to the top of the US box office as the summer comes to a close is the top movie of the season which takes $6 Million, a 21% increase over last weekend.
Interestingly the is the same behaviour as the form Top Gun movie, which in the summer of 1986 hot the top on its release and then spent another week at the summit as the season came to a close.
The sequel movie has now taken an amazing $699 Million and it is the top movie of 2022, and by next weekend is should have overtaken Black Panther and enter the top 5 North American movies of all time.
Bullet Train
The Brad Pitt starring fast train movie stays at number 2 this weekend with a gross of $5.7 Million, a small 2% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross in North America of $86.2 Million after 5 weeks of release.
Spider Man: No Way Home
Although only released last December the last Spider-Man movie has been given a re-release with 20 minutes or so extra footage which takes $5.3 Million over the weekend.
This is the 24th weekend it has spent on the chart and it pushes the movies total gross to $811.6 Million.
THe movie is the 7th top movie of 2022 and is also the 3rd top movie of all time in North America.
DC League of Super-Pets
The animated feature from the DC superhero universe goes back into the top 5 at number 4 with a weekend gross of $5 Million, an 18% increase.
The movie has taken a total of $80 Million in North America after 6 weeks of release.
The Invitation
Falling from the top where it made its debut last weekend is the horror movie from director Jessica M. Thompson which takes $4.8 Million on its second weekend of release, a 29% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of $13 Million.