Box Office Report for the Week of August 3

Sorry, no full column this week, as Maxance is away on family business. The regular box office report will return next week, but we didn’t want to leave everyone without box office news, so an abbreviated report is below.

Taking the top spot this weekend once again is The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The film dropped 66% in its second weekend, for a haul of $40 million. All told, the Marvel movie is at $198 million and counting. It’ll do fine, all told, but this drop is concerning, to be sure.

The Bad Guys 2 opened in second place with $22.2 million, while third place went to the debut of The Naked Gun, which took in $17 million. Both had solid debuts, with potentially strong holds in the weekends to come. In fourth place is Superman, continuing to do well with another $13.9 million, giving the movie $316 million, with more to come.

The other new release this week was Together, which got a few days head start and wound up in sixth place with $6.8 million. NEON pulls another low budget horror success story, much like what A24 used to do (and still often does).

Here is the top ten at the box office for this weekend:

1. The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Disney): $40M (-66%) – 4,125 theaters
2. The Bad Guys 2 (Universal Pictures): $22.2M – 3,852 theaters
3. The Naked Gun (Paramount Pictures): $17M – 3,344 theaters
4. Superman (Warner Bros): $13.9M (-44.1%) – 3,537 theaters
5. Jurassic World: Rebirth (Universal Pictures): $8.7M (-34.1%) – 3,240 theaters
6. Together (Neon): $6.8M – 2,302 theaters
7. F1: The Movie (Warner Bros): $4.1M (-35%) – 2,024 theaters
8. I Know What You Did Last Summer (Sony): $2.6M (-49%) – 2,303 theaters
9. Smurfs (Paramount Pictures): $1.7M (-67.6%) – 2,295 theaters
10. How to Train Your Dragon (Universal Pictures): $1.3M (-53.3%) – 1,459 theaters

Source: Box Office Mojo