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US Box Office Weekend 7th - 9th September 2018: The Nun scares audiences in the run up to Halloween

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The Nun
Continuing the Conjuring series this week The Nun takes on the box office and wins with the second highest opening gross for a September movie in the US.

peppermint

The film manages the highest opening of the series so far with a $53 million weekend and should keep up some momentum until Halloween which is still 6 weeks away.

Falling to number 2 this week after a 3 week run at the top is Crazy Rich Asians, a $13 .6 million weekend brings the films total US gross to $136.2 million

New at number 3 is Peppermint from director Pierre Morel who directed Taken and stars Jennifer Garner, the film takes $13.2 million on its debut.

The Meg has been around for 5 weeks now and this weeks takes $6 million which places it at 4, the films total US gross is $131.5 million.

Falling to number 5 this week is Searching which takes $4.5 million to bring its total gross to $14.3 million after 2 weeks.

The top total grossing film on the US box office this week is Mission:Impossible Fallout which has taken $212.1 million so far and has been out for 7 weeks.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

  1. The Nun - $53,807,379
  2. Peppermint - $13,423,255
  3. Crazy Rich Asians - $13,148,404
  4. The Meg - $6,094,327
  5. Searching - $4,570,235
  6. Mission:Impossible - Fallout - $3,885,798
  7. Christopher Robin - $3,404,931
  8. Operation Finale - $2,871,184
  9. BlackKKlansman - $2,609,915
  10. Alpha - $2,517,768
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