At the US box office: Napoleon and desire were defeated by two unexpected films!

US Box Office December 8-10, 2023

1 – The Boy and the Heron: $12,836,000 (New)

2 – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: $9,400,000 (cumulative: $135,656,000)

3 – Godzilla Minus One: $8,343,000 (cumulative: $25,344,000)

4 – Trolls 3: $6,200,000 (cumulative: $83,082,000)

5 – The Wish – Asha and the Lucky Star: $5,300,000 (cumulative: $49,413,000)

6 – Renaissance: The Beyoncé Movie: $5,000,000 (cumulative: $28,051,000)

7 – Napoleon: $4,200,000 (cumulative: $53,095,000)

8 – Waitress: The Musical: $3,238,000 (New)

9 – Animal: $2,275,000 (cumulative: $11,552,000)

10 – Shift: $2,159,000 (Cumulative: $8,502,000)

to remember

Japanese animation king Hayao Miyazaki is leading the North American box office this weekend The boy and the heron. The feature film, which opened in theaters on November 1, grossed $12.8 million. This is the best start for an animated film from Studios Ghibli in the US.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Snake and the Bird It continues to hold its own at the US box office and is on the second step of the podium with $9.4 million. The film, starring Rachel Zeegler and Tom Blythe, has grossed $135.6 million in the United States to date.

A science fiction film Godzilla: Minus one It continues its momentum and remains in third place with more than $8.4 million collected this weekend, for a cumulative total of $25 million in its second week.

Unexpected Success for Godzilla: Minus One

A true runaway success, Takashi Yamazaki’s feature film is the highest-grossing live-action Japanese film in North America. This marks a new record after last week’s Godzilla: Minus One achieved the biggest start of 2023 at the US box office for a foreign film.

Toho International, which is distributing the film in the US, even added screens in its second week. It is now running in 2,540 theaters compared to 2,308 earlier. The film was released on French screens only on December 7 and 8.

debut at the US box office last week, Renaissance: The Beyoncé Movie It dropped to fifth place and recorded $5 million for a cumulative total of $28 million. Beyoncé’s concert broadcast saw a 77% drop in attendance.

Finally, note that Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Creatures starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Buffalo, scheduled to open in French theaters on January 17th, has enjoyed a limited release in the US this Friday, December 8th.

Scheduled for 9 theaters, the Venice Golden Lion ranks 18th at the US box office with $644,000 grossed in $3 days, for an impressive $71,556 per screen average.