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US Box Office Weekend Report 28th February - 1st March 2020: The Invisible Man appears at the top of the box office on its debut weekend

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The Invisible Man
Horror, Thriller The Invisible Man makes its debut at the top of the US box office on its debut weekend knocking Sonic The Hedgehog from the top while My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising also makes an impressive debut at number 4.

The Invisible Man

Directed by Leigh Whannell the new take on a monster movie makes its way to the top of the US box office with ease over the weekend with a debut gross of $29 Million.

The Elisabeth Moss and Oliver Jackson-Cohen starring movie is well places to to have a good run at the box office and with nothing but a Pixar movie aiming at a totally different market coming of note until late March it could have a big number final gross.

Sonic The Hedgehog

The speedy blue hedgehog movie starring Jim Carrey falls to number 2 this week after a couple of weeks at the top with $16 Million over the weekend.

This brings the Jeff Fowler directed video game adaptation to $128.2 Million after 3 weeks of release.

The Call Of The Wild

The Harrison Ford starring movie falls to 3 this week with $13.2 Million taking its total to $45.8 Million after 2 weeks of release.

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

The Japanese anime superhero film makes its debut at number 4 on the US box office with a weekend take of $5.1 Million.

With a mid-week release the film has taken $8.4 Million to date.

Bad Boys For Life

The Will Smith and Martin Lawrence buddy cop movie which has been a surprise smash hit falls to 5 this week with $4.3 Million to boost its total to $197.3 Million after 7 weeks of release.

Parasite

THe Oscar winning movie from South Korea directed by Bong Joon Ho is the longest running film on the box office this week with 20 weeks in total and is at number 12 this week.

Jumanji: The Next Level

It may not have done the numbers of Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle but the Dwayne Johnson sequel is doing well and this week has the top total gross on the box office with $313.7 Million after 12 weeks, it is this weeks number 11.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

  1. The Invisible Man - $28,205,665
  2. Sonic the Hedgehog - $16,261,393
  3. The Call of the Wild - $13,362,823
  4. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising - $5,875,420
  5. Bad Boys For Life - $4,350,134
  6. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) - $4,104,283
  7. Impractical Jokers: The Movie - $3,600,000
  8. 1917 - $2,710,080
  9. Brahms: The Boy II - $2,622,542
  10. Fantasy Island - $2,326,378
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