‘Thunderbolts*’ and ‘Sinners’ top box office charts once more

AP Marvel s Thunderbolts and Ryan Coogler s Sinners dominated the North American box office charts again this weekend Now in their second and fourth weekends respectively the two films had a few new competition including a horror movie a Kerry Washington action pic a Josh Hartnett airplane thriller and a Shakespeare-inspired musical None of the additions made a essential impact Thunderbolts took first place with million from theaters in the U S and Canada according to studio estimates Sunday That s down from its opening Internationally it added million bringing its global total to million In just two weekends the Walt Disney Co release is already the fourth biggest of the year globally and domestically The movie is also faring better than the previous Marvel movie Captain America Brave New World which took a big dive in its second weekend The key difference was reviews which don t constantly dictate the fate of superhero movies but good word of mouth has helped Thunderbolts The holding power of this film harkens back to the heyday of Marvel disclosed Paul Dergarabedian the senior media analyst for Comscore The currency of the long-term playability is more vital than the sheer opening weekends The studio also has another big movie coming later this summer in The Fantastic Four First Initiatives Sinners meanwhile crossed the million mark in North American ticket sales this weekend which is especially notable for an original R-rated movie It added million domestically and million internationally bringing its global total to million Next weekend it s also returning to mm IMAX screens by popular demand IMAX noted Warner Bros other juggernaut A Minecraft Movie has made million domestically and million globally in its six weekends in theaters It added just under million to take third place this weekend followed by The Accountant in fourth with million Several new movies also opened in wide release this weekend but none seemed to break through the noise The biggest of the bunch was Clown in a Cornfield which earned million a relative high water mark for its distributor IFC and cracked the top five The second weekend in May there is typically a bit of a lull Dergarabedian noted IFC picked a perfect date for this clown to scare people into the theater Shadow Force a Lionsgate action pic with Washington and Omar Sy from The Grey filmmaker Joe Carnahan made million from screens Vertical s Flight or Fight starring Hartnett as a mercenary on a plane full of assassins also debuted with an estimated million from screens In limited release the Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd movie Friendship launched on six screens in New York and Los Angeles and scored the best per-screen average of the year with plenty of sellouts released A plans to expand the release nationwide over Memorial Day Overall it was a relatively quiet weekend but thanks to A Minecraft Movie Sinners and Thunderbolts the year-to-date box office is up around from last year according to Comscore statistics Compared with however it s down over Next week Final Destination Bloodlines should give the marketplace another jolt before two giants debut over the holiday weekend Lilo Stitch and Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning Top movies by domestic box office With final domestic figures being disclosed Monday this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U S and Canadian theaters according to Comscore Thunderbolts million Sinners million A Minecraft Movie million The Accountant million Clown in a Cornfield million Shadow Force million Fight or Flight million Until Dawn million The Amateur million The King of Kings