Box Office – August 5-7, 2022: BULLET TRAIN, DC LEAGUE OF SUPER PETS, NOPE, & More

Box Office August 5-7, 2022

The theatrical movie box office results for August 5, 2022 through August 7, 2022 have been released.

Bullet Train premiered in the Number One spot at the box office over the weekend with $30.1 Million.

DC League of Super Pets was Second at the United States box office with $11.2 Million so far.

Nope was Third at the United States box office with $18.5 Million so far.

Thor: Love and Thunder was Fourth at the box office with $7.6 Million for $316 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $698.8 Million.

Minions: The Rise of Gru was Fifth at the box office with $7.1 Million for $334.5 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $757.8 Million.

These films: Top Gun: Maverick, Where the Crawdads Sing, Easter Sunday (which premiered this weekend), Elvis, and The Black Phone rounded out the top ten respectively.

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film starring Brad Pitt as an assassin who has to deal with enemies while riding a Japanese bullet train. The film is directed by David Leitch based on a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz that adapts the Japanese novel Maria Beetle (published in English as Bullet Train) by K?tar? Isaka. In addition to Pitt, the film stars Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Benito A. Martínez Ocasio, and Sandra Bullock.

Easter Sunday is a 2022 American comedy film starring Jo Koy as a struggling actor, comedian, and single father who attends a gathering of his loud and dysfunctional Filipino American family on Easter Sunday. The film is directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and written by Ken Cheng and Kate Angelo, from a story by Cheng. In addition to Koy, the film stars Jimmy O. Yang, Tia Carrere, Brandon Wardell, Eva Noblezada, Lydia Gaston, Asif Ali, Rodney To, Eugene Cordero, Chandrasekhar, Tiffany Haddish, and Lou Diamond Phillips. Universal Pictures theatrically released the film on August 5, 2022. It received mixed reviews from critics.

Next week sees the release of: Fall, Mack & Rita, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Emergency Declaration, Emily the Criminal, Girl Picture, Rogue Agent, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Bullet Train will be Number One at the box office.

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