With no major new releases, Top Gun: Maverick was, at one point on Sunday, poised to re-claim the number two spot even after 12 weeks of release. But as this report is being written, it looks like DC League of Super-Pets narrowly edged out Tom Cruise’s blockbuster to win second place.

Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train stayed on top with $13.4 million. The animated DC League of Super-Pets held a slim lead over Maverick with $7.17 million while the latter had $7.15 million.

In the continuing box office saga of the Top Gun sequel, the movie fell off the top five for the first time last weekend but now, not only is it back in the magic circle. The Joseph Kosinski-directed drama, released last May 27, cinched not the fourth or fifth spot but the third slot.

However, box office analysts say that when final figures are determined on Monday, Maverick may swap places with the DC League of Super-Pets and potentially be number two.

Whatever the final outcome is, what looks sure is that Tom’s high-flying action-drama with Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, and Glen Powell, currently with a $673.8 million domestic total, will soon zoom past Avengers: Infinity War’s $678.8 million to become the sixth highest grossing movie of all time in North America.

Chris Hemsworth’s Thor: Love and Thunder took fourth place with $5.311 million. Jordan Peele’s Nope is a certified hit after its $5.3 million recent haul pushed the acclaimed horror/mystery/sci-fi’s four-week earnings to $107.5 million.

Making up the rest of the top ten were, in order: Minions: The Rise of Gru, $4.9 million; Where the Crawdads Sing, $4 million; Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies, starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Pete Davidson, and Rachel Sennott, $3.25 million; Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, $2.585 million; and Scott Mann’s Fall, a thriller with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, and Mason Gooding, which bowed with $2.5 million.

As of Sunday, Jo Koy’s Easter Sunday was running close to Fall with $2.4 million and ranked eleventh. Monday’s final figures may change the two films’ rankings.

Internationally, Bullet Train also whizzed to the top after raking in $17 million. The action/comedy/thriller about five assassins aboard Japan’s high-speed Shinkansen, costarring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Bryan Tyree Henry, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Andrew Koji, has amassed $60 million offshore for a global take of $114.5 million.

The Minions’ $10.8 million overseas take propelled the animated film’s worldwide tally to $790.4 million. The Rise of Gru, Jurassic World Dominion, Nope, The Bad Guys and The Black Phone made Universal Pictures the first studio to hit the $3 billion milestone worldwide since 2019.

Other top-performing movies offshore mirrored the domestic market: Maverick ($8.4 million); DC League of Super-Pets ($7.7 million); Thor: Love and Thunder ($6.2 million); and Nope, which debuted internationally with $6.3 million.

Over in Korea, Hunt, the feature directing debut of Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae, opened at number one with $12 million. Lee, who played Seong Gi-hun in Squid Game, also stars in the espionage action film.

Speaking of Korea, Moon Man, the Chinese film adaptation of South Korean illustrator Cho Seok’s “Moon You” comics series, continues to be a huge hit in China. The sci-fi/comedy about “the last human in the universe” earned $360 million.