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US Box Office Weekend Report 17th - 19th May 2024: IF tops the North American box office on its debut weekend of release

US Box Office Weekend Report 17th - 19th May 2024:  IF tops the North American box office on its debut weekend of release
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John Krasinski directs with Ryan Reynolds starring in the new movie IF which tops the US box office on its debut weekend of release with a gross of $33.7 Million.

Compared to the directors last movie A Quiet Place: Part II this is quite a bit lower as that movie took $48.3 Million on its debut weekend in May of 2021.

Last weekends top movie Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes falls to number 2 this weekend and has taken just over $100 Million in 2 weeks.

Also new on this weekends top 5 is The Strangers: Chapter 1 which lands at number 3 with $11.8 Million.

US Box Office QuickView

  • Number 1 - IF (1st Weekend)
  • Highest debut - IF (@1)
  • Longest run - Kung-Fu Panda 4 (11 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire ($194,370,849)
  • Best Percentage change week on week - I Saw the TV Glow (+81%)
  • Total US top 15 this weekend - $96,467,752
  • Also new this weekend
    • Back to Black
    • The Blue Angels
  • Check out the full US box office.

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 17th - 19th May 2024

IF

  • The movie is a new entry at Number 1 on this weekends US box office
  • It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
  • It has a total gross of $33,715,801 after 1 weekends of release
  • The movie is the 19th top grossing film so far in 2024

  • The movie goes down the chart to Number 2 on this weekends US box office
  • It grosses $25,450,289 over the weekend, a 56% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of $100,689,790 after 2 weekends of release
  • The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2024
  • The movie is a sequel to War For the Planet of the Apes which took $98,235,137 at the box office after 2 weekends of release.

  • The movie is a new entry at Number 3 on this weekends US box office
  • It has a total gross of $11,825,058 after 1 weekends of release

The Fall Guy

  • The movie goes down the chart to Number 4 on this weekends US box office
  • It grosses $8,350,640 over the weekend, a 39% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of $62,887,485 after 3 weekends of release
  • The movie is the 13th top grossing film so far in 2024

  • The movie goes down the chart to Number 5 on this weekends US box office
  • It grosses $2,867,343 over the weekend, a 34% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of $43,436,439 after 4 weekends of release
  • The movie is the 18th top grossing film so far in 2024

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

  1. IF - $33,715,801
  2. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - $25,450,289
  3. The Strangers: Chapter 1 - $11,825,058
  4. The Fall Guy - $8,350,640
  5. Challengers - $2,867,343
  6. Back to Black - $2,835,720
  7. Tarot - $2,017,766
  8. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - $1,675,836
  9. The Blue Angels - $1,404,820
  10. Civil War - $1,049,575
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