It’s an exciting weekend for international cinema at the U.S. box office, with two Japanese films hitting the top three in American theaters—one live-action and one animated! The top spot went to the animated one, Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron, which opened with $10 million (and on 1,000 fewer screens than second place’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes, which is in its fourth week).
The other Japanese movie, Godzilla Minus One, landed in third in its second week and made $8 million. Godzilla and Studio Ghibli rocking the American box office charts, how cool is that? Should Nintendo re-release The Super Mario Bros. Movie while we’re at it?
Trolls Band Together ($6.2 million) and Wish ($5.3 million) finish up the top five for the second week in a row, followed by Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé, which is hanging around and has made nearly $30 million. After that is Napoleon, having made $53 million after three weeks ahead of its eventual Apple TV+ premiere, and then Waitress: The Musical (the top 10’s only other newcomer), which made $2.5 million this week. Finally, the top 10 ends with controversial Indian film Animal and church-y multiverse movie The Shift.
Further down the charts, a Die Hard re-release made $923,000, the debut of Poor Things (on a very limited rollout of only nine screens) made a relatively huge $644,000, and Oppenheimer came sneaking back into theaters to add $350,000 to its $325 million total from over the summer.
Here’s the top 10 again from Box Office Mojo.
- The Boy And The Heron
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes
- Godzilla Minus One
- Trolls Band Together
- Wish
- Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé
- Napoleon
- Waitress: The Musical
- Animal
- The Shift
