Box Office: July 30-August 1, 2021: JUNGLE CRUISE, THE GREEN KNIGHT, OLD, & More

Box Office: July 30-August 1, 2021

The theatrical movie box office results for July 30, 2021 through August 1, 2021 have been released.

Jungle Cruise premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office over the weekend with $34.1 Million.

The Green Knight premiered in Second Place at the box office with $6.7 Million.

Old was Third at the box office with $6.7 Million.

Black Widow was Fourth at the box office over the weekend with $6.4 Million for a total of $167 Million. Worldwide, Black Widow has made $343.5 Million so far.

Stillwater premiered in Fifth Place at the box office over the weekend with $4.6 Million for $163.2 Million so far. Worldwide, F9 has made $621 Million so far.

These films: Space Jam: A New Legacy, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, F9: The Fast Saga, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, and The Boss Baby: Family Business rounded out the top ten respectively.

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

Jungle Cruise is a 2021 American fantasy adventure film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra from screenplay written by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, and Michael Green, based on Walt Disney’s theme park attraction of the same name. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, and Paul Giamatti, and follows the captain of a small riverboat who takes a group of travelers through a jungle in search of the Tree of Life.

The Green Knight (titled onscreen as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous) is a 2021 American epic medieval fantasy film written, edited, produced, and directed by David Lowery. The film stars Dev Patel as Gawain, a newly-appointed knight from King Arthur’s Round Table, who sets out on a journey to test his courage and face the Green Knight. Based on the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the film also stars Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, and Ralph Ineson.

Stillwater is a 2021 American crime drama film directed by Tom McCarthy, based on a script he co-wrote with Marcus Hinchey, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. It stars Matt Damon as an unemployed oil rig worker from Oklahoma who sets out alongside a French woman (Camille Cottin) to prove his convicted daughter’s (Abigail Breslin) innocence.

Next week sees the release of: The Suicide Squad, Nine Days, and a plethora of other mainstream and independent films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: The Suicide Squad will be Number One at the box office.

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