"Box Office Battle" is The Fly's weekly roundup of what movies topped the weekend's box office.
Lionsgate's (LGF.A) action-comedy sequel "The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard" won Father's Day weekend box office with $11.7M from 3,331 locations for a five-day start of $17M. Audiences gave the Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson and Salma Hayek's film a B CinemaScore.
BOX OFFICE RUNNERS-UP: ViacomCBS (VIAC) subsidiary Paramount's "A Quiet Place II" placed number 2 with $9.4M. Behind it was Sony's (SONY) "Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway," which earned an estimated $6.1M in its second weekend. New Line and AT&T (T) subsidiary Warner Bros.' "The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It" place number 4 with $5.2M from 3,102 theaters. Rounding out the top five, Disney's (DIS) "Cruella" grossed an estimated $5.1M.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:
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AT&T
-0.1 (-0.35%)
Comcast
-0.8 (-1.39%)
Comcast
+ (+0.00%)
Sony
-1.26 (-1.31%)
Lionsgate
+0.39 (+2.03%)
Lionsgate
+0.16 (+0.93%)
Disney
-2.19 (-1.25%)
Use PARA
-0.135 (-0.31%)
Use PARA
-0.14 (-0.35%)