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- ‘Verity’ topped the box office this weekend.
- ‘Digger’ stumbled into third.
- ‘Resident Evil’ clung to second place.
Warner Bros.’ year box office woes continued as Tom Cruise’s latest film –– a pivot from the action fare that has served him well recently –– failed to find its audience after a lot of negative reviews and dodgy buzz. To put it simply, audiences didn’t dig ‘Digger,’ as the movie stumbled into fifth with $8 million.
Instead, it was up to ‘Verity,’ the psychosexual thriller adapted from a Colleen Hoover novelby director Michael Showalter to top the charts with $33.6 million.
‘Resident Evil,’ meanwhile, stayed in second place with $12 million.
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Top Five Movies at the Box Office
1. ‘Verity’ -$32.6 million
2. ‘Resident Evil’ -$12.5 million
3. ‘Heart of the Beast’ -$11 million
4. ‘Primetime’ -$8.5 million
5. ‘Digger’ -$8 million
What else happened at the box office this weekend?
Elsewhere, the top five stayed mostly the same, as survival thriller ‘Heart of the Beast’ held in third with $11 million, while ‘Primetime’ was still fourth on $8.2 million.
The one other new release was Indian crime drama ‘Drishyam: The Conclusion,’ which arrived ninth with $2.45 million.
And then there’s ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ which thanks to last weekend’s re-release (with around six minutes of extra footage and ‘Encore’ tagged on to it) has collected a huge $126 million in two weekends, once again ranks as the biggest release of all time.
