Box Office

One Piece Film – Red is the new number 1 in France. Directed by Goro Taniguchi with Stephane Excoffier, Mayumi Tanaka, and Marie Braam, this animated movie is about Luffy and his crew  - they are about to attend an eagerly awaited music festival in which the daughter of the legendary pirate Shanks Le Roux will reveal her exceptional voice power, capable of changing the world.

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.

Gru is definitely rising. After weeks of slumping revenues, Minions: The Rise of Gru has brought a breath of fresh air.

German humor rules the chart again. Jordan Peele breaks into the top ten.

Moon Man, the blockbuster Chinese sci-fi comedy, has sold over 50 million tickets in just over two weeks of release and is breaking box office records in covid times. For the weekend, it earned $31.

Bullet Train is the new number 1 at the box office in France. Directed by David Leitch with Brad Pitt, Joey King, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bullet Train is an action comedy about five assassins aboard a fast-moving bullet train who find out their missions have something in common.

Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train may have sped to the top of the domestic box office but the big news was Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick has zoomed past Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet’s Titanic to become the seventh all-time biggest hit in North America. And with $662 million in domestic ticket sales, the Top Gun sequel looks like it will also dethrone Avengers: Infinity War, which earned $678 million, and become the sixth highest grossing movie of all time in the United States and Canada.

For the fifth consecutive week,  Thor: Love and Thunder leads the Italian Box Office. But this time the drop in overall revenues is of no small concern.

Chinese sci-fi comedy Moon Man, continued its domination of the Chinese box office, revitalizing the theatrical industry. It has already made $297.

Finally, some real shakeup in the charts: a German crime comedy kicked the Minions off the top spot, and a US-made action comedy debuted in third place. Germany’s number one film is Guglhupfgeschwader – to translate this funny dialectic title, one needs to explain: a Guglhupf is a bundt cake, Geschwader means squadron, but the real meaning is found in the story.