(Los Angeles) The Horror Movie The Invitation topped the North American box office this weekend for its release despite low receipts, according to Sunday estimates from industry firm Exhibitor Relations.
Posted at 4:42 p.m.
The film raked in $7 million from Friday to Sunday, the worst first place in fifteen months, the magazine variety speaking of a “catastrophically slow weekend”.
Luckily for Sony, the production of this feature film cost just under $10 million.
Nathalie Emmanuel and Thomas Doherty are the main actors in this film inspired by Dracula and which, according to expert David Gross, “doesn’t really appeal to critics”.
The action movie Bullet Train comes second with 5.6 million over the weekend. Brad Pitt plays one of the hitmen who try to kill each other on a high-speed train between Tokyo and Kyoto.
With 4.9 million over the weekend, Beastfrom Universal Studios, is in third position, just ahead of Top Gun: Maverick, which still rakes in $4.7 million in revenue after 14 weeks. Following Top Gunalways with Tom Cruise, has already won a total of 691 million dollars in North America and 720 million in the rest of the world.
As for the animated film Dragon Ball Super: Super Herothe 21e feature film of the Japanese saga, it demoted from first to fifth place with only 4.6 million dollars in revenue.
Here is the rest of Top 10 :
6- DC League of Super Pets ($4.2 million)
7- Three Thousand Years of Longing (2.9 million)
8- Minions: The Rise of Gru (2.7 million)
9- Thor: Love and Thunder (2.7 million)
10- Where the Crawdads Sing (2.3 million)