The Monkey laughs at the US box office, but Captain America clings

Marvel still experiences a fall in epic attendance in the second week, but remains number 1.

There is better, but the great hours of Marvel Universe at the US box office seem far away.

Captain America: Brave New World retains first place in the ranking across the Atlantic after its second weekend. The film worn by Anthony Mackie garnered an additional $ 28.3 million, which allows him to keep the place of number 1, but with a frequentation in sharp decline: -68 % compared to his opening weekend! It is a brutal withdrawal, but less violent than that of The Marvels (-78 %) or even Ant-man and the wasp: Quantumania (-70 %). The film approaches $ 300 million in global revenue. But he will have to do more than 400 million so as not to make Disney lose money, according to the calculations of the American press.

Suddenly, the real good surprise of the weekend comes from Stephen King: the horrifying thriller The Monkeydistributed by Neon, starts with a first weekend around $ 14 million. Even if this launch remains behind that of Longlegs (22.4 million last July), another film by Neon directed by Oz Perkins, The Monkey could benefit from a good word of mouth to boost its attendance in the coming weeks. And with a production budget of around $ 10 million, the horror film is well started to be very profitable in theaters.

In third position, Paddington in Perudistributed by Sony, adds 6.5 million in the second week (down -48 %). Studiocal production will exceed $ 25 million in revenue in the United States after 10 days of operation, a rate similar to that of Paddington 2 in 2017.

Note that in fifth position, the Chinese blockbuster Ne zha 2 Fall of 63 % and is satisfied with $ 2.8 million for its second weekend in the United States, for a total of 15 million in the US. The global buzz – generated by its success at the Chinese box office, which made the biggest success film in the history of animation cinema (ahead of Pixar) with $ 1.7 billion in global revenue – has Not enough to sharpen the curiosity of American spectators.