“Thunderbolts* ”strikes gold for the second week in a row at the weekend box office

• Marvel’s Thunderbolts* earned the top spot at the weekend box office for the second week running with a $33 million take.

• Ryan Coogler’s period vampire thriller, Sinners, maintains a strong hold on second place with $21 million.

• Three premieres also appeared on the domestic box office leaderboard: Clown in a Cornfield ($3.6 million), Shadow Force ($2.015 million), and Fight or Flight ($2.001 million).

• A trio of new releases vies for next week’s top spots: animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Rise of Leo, The Weeknd in Hurry Up Tomorrow, and horror franchise entry Final Destination: Bloodlines.

Thunderbolts* may have lost one title (Marvel enlisted the film’s stars to usher in a rebrand to *The New Avengers this week), but it’s keeping another: box office champ.

The superheroic romp starring  Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus topped this weekend’s box office with a $33 million take, making for a $128.4 million domestic gross after two weeks in theaters. The film debuted in the top spot at last weekend’s box office, unseating the previous king of cash, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.

The period vampire thriller retains an impressive hold in the second spot on the box office leaderboard after four weeks in release, adding $21 million this weekend for a $214.4 million domestic gross. Coogler’s longtime collaborator Michael B. Jordan, along with the all-star ensemble of Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, and Hailee Steinfeld are expected to take the film across the $300 million threshold at the global box office in short order, as the film reached $283.3 million this weekend.

Several premieres cracked the box office leaderboard this weekend, but the third and fourth spots held some familiar faces. In third is A Minecraft Movie, which is going strong in its sixth week of release. The video game adaptation from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess added another $7.9 million to its coffers this weekend, making for a nearly $409 million cumulative domestic haul.

In the fourth spot is The Accountant 2, Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal’s sequel to their 2016 shoot-’em-up thriller. The film now has $50.8 million to its name from the domestic market, after a $6 million take in its third week of release.

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The next three highest-grossing films at the domestic box office this week are all premieres: The wacky horror Clown in a Cornfield, which earned $3.6 million and marks the biggest debut for both IFC Films and RLJE Films; Lionsgate’s action-packed Shadow Force, starring Kerry Washington and Omar Sy, which earned $2.015 million; and Fight or Flight, an independent action-comedy starring Josh Hartnett, which earned $2.001 million.

The global box office chart largely mirrors domestic, with the top four spots belonging to Thunderbolts* ($67 million this week for a $272 million gross), Sinners ($27.7 million this week; $283.3 million gross), A Minecraft Movie ($20.4 million this week; $909.5 million gross), and The Accountant 2 ($9.5 million this week, $80.2 million gross).

Clown in a Cornfield, however, dropped from the fifth spot to the tenth at the global box office. Taking its place in the top five is The Dumpling Queen, a Chinese film which tells the true story of Zang Jianhe, founder of the wildly successful Hong Kong food brand Wanchai Ferry.

Next week, Thunderbolts* faces several competitive new titles releasing in theaters, including the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Rise of Leo, surely to hit big with the powerful children’s demographic; Hurry Up Tomorrow, the big screen debut of the Weeknd (co-starring Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan); and Final Destination: Bloodlines, the sixth installment in the bloody horror franchise.

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