Brad Pitt’s ‘Bullet Train’ Tops Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun 2’

In holdover news, Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train earned $1.1 million (-31%) on its fifth Friday for a likely $4.7 million (+15%) Fri-Sun frame and $6 million holiday haul. That will give the $90 million, R-rated, David Leitch-directed actioner an $86 million 32-day cume, keeping it on a slow path to $100 million domestic. At the very least, it’s already leggier than Hobbs & Shaw ($173 million from a $60 million opening weekend in 2019). Like (relatively speaking) Nope and Super Pets, it didn’t break out, but it didn’t crash and burn. We’ll see if Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick can sneak past into the top spot this weekend. The $170 million legacy sequel earned another $1.075 million (-21%) on Friday for a likely $4.5 million (-5%) Fri-Sun gross and $6 million Fri-Mon weekend. That will put it just over/under $700 million domestic.

Sony and Screen Gems’ The Invitation earned $1.05 million (-61%) on Friday for a likely $3.835 million (-43%) Fri-Sun/$4.75 million Fri-Mon gross. That will give the vampire chiller a $13.77 million 11-day domestic total. Universal’s Beast earned another $750,000 (-43%) on Friday for a likely $4.03 million (-17%) Fri-Sun/$4.83 million Fri-Mon weekend. That will give the $36 million Idris Elba vehicle a $26.61 million 18-day domestic cume. Warner Bros. Discovery’s DC League of Super Pets earned another $725,000 (-33%) for a likely $3.1 million (+29%) weekend, $3.5 million holiday gross and $80 million domestic cume. Universal and Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru earned $470,000 (-32%) on Friday for a likely $3.57 million (+32%) Fri-Sun/$4.4 million Fri-Mon gross. That will put the $80 million prequel/sequel over $360 million domestic as it aims to join Jurassic World Dominion ($375 million domestic) in passing $900 million worldwide.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero earned around $520,000 (-61%) on Friday for a likely $2.65 million (-43%) weekend and $3.19 million Fri-Mon gross. That will give Crunchy Roll’s anime sequel a $35.65 million 18-day domestic cume. Sony’s Where the Crawdads Sing should earn around $2.45 million over the long weekend to bring its cume to $86 million on a $24 million budget. Disney’s Thor: Love and Thunder will earn $2.9 million over the holiday to pass $340 million domestic as it zooms past $750 million worldwide. Once again, it’s not my favorite MCU movie by a long shot, but the notion that it’s anything other than a hit is ridiculous. MGM’s Three Thousand Years of Longing will earn $2.56 million over the holiday. That will give George Miller’s ambitious but (if we’re honest) always commercially doomed Idris Elba/Tilda Swinton fantasy a $6.8 million 11-day total.

Universal and Monkeypaw’s Nope will gross around $2.47 million over the holiday to bring its domestic cume to $121 million. That’s lower-than-hoped, considering Jordan Peele’s previous pictures and the $69 million budget. However, it’s still a solid result for a star-lite, high-concept, R-rated original. Warner Bros. Discovery’s Elvis debuted on HBO Max yesterday, and it will pull a $1.47 million Fri-Mon gross to bring its domestic total to $149.5 million. A24’s Bodies Bodies Bodies will earn $900,000 over the holiday to cross $11 million. It’ll pass the $11.8 million cume of A24’s X back in March. Finally, China’s current blockbuster Moon Man got a modest domestic release in 70 theaters. The delightful sci-fi dramedy, about an engineer stranded on Mars as Earth faces an apocalyptic event, will earn around $278,000 over the long weekend. Its Chinese cume is currently at $422 million.