Weekend Box Office Report: It Chapter Two terrifies the top twice!

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

A second scary weekend for Pennywise!

Master of the macabre Stephen King's creepy clown creation was at the top of the box office again as IT: CHAPTER TWO snatched an estimated $40.7 million!

The sewer-based kidnapping creature sank by 55% from last weekend's opening, but the R-rated conclusion has floated to a ten-day domestic total of $153.8 million to already make it one of the biggest domestic horror movies of all time as it sailed past every release in THE CONJURING series.

Director Andy Muschietti's $70 million sequel with the now-adult Losers Club (including Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader and James McAvoy) against Bill Skarsgard's nightmarish entity has also collected a worldwide total of $323 million, putting it a bit short of halfway to the startling $700 million global finish of the first IT installment in 2017.

Opening in second place was the new R-rated comedy-drama HUSTLERS with $33.2 million.

The fact-based crime tale, with Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu leading a group of exotic dancers who drug and rob wealthy customers, was the best opening for both actresses ahead of Lopez's 2005 comedy MONSTER IN LAW ($23.1 million) and Wu's smash romcom CRAZY RICH ASIANS ($26.5 million).

Also featuring Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Cardi B. and Lizzo, the felonious stripper story cost a reported $20 million and also swindled an extra $4.4 million internationally for a $37.6 million worldwide weekend.

Most critics cheered the girls getting their pockets filled, giving the movie an 88% average on Rotten Tomatoes. You can gyrate over to the JoBlo review HERE.

In third place was the R-rated action-thriller ANGEL HAS FALLEN with $4.4 million. The $40 million Gerard Butler sequel has a domestic total of $60.3 million after four weeks, putting it just shy of the $62.5 million finish for previous entry LONDON HAS FALLEN in 2016.

The R-rated comedy GOOD BOYS was in fourth place with $4.2 million, bringing the $20 million Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg-produced feature to $73.3 million domestic and $91.6 million worldwide on its fifth weekend.

Disney's THE LION KING remake was in fifth place with $3.5 million, lording over the top half of the chart for nine weekends now for a domestic total of $533.9 million and $1.61 billion worldwide on a reported $250 million cost.

The Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson/Jason Statham team-up FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW was still kicking faces in sixth place with $2.7 million. After seven weekends, the $200 million spinoff from director David Leitch has a domestic total of $168.3 million and packs a wallop worldwide with a total of $740.9 million.

The PG-rated drama OVERCOMER was in seventh place with $2.7 million, giving the $5 million faith-based release a domestic total of $28.9 million on its fourth weekend.

In eighth place was the new R-rated drama THE GOLDFINCH with an opening of $2.6 million.

Although based on Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning bestseller and featuring a solid cast (including Nicole Kidman, Ansel Elgort, Jeffrey Wright, Sarah Paulson and Luke Wilson), the $45 million adaptation from BROOKLYN director John Crowley ended up with the lowest per-screen average in the Top 10 on its debut weekend.

Critics weren't feeling generous toward the story of a boy adopted by a wealthy New York family, giving the movie a 25% average on Rotten Tomatoes. Move in with the JoBlo review HERE.

The PG-13 comedy THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON was in ninth place with $1.9 million as the $6 million adventure has slowly paddled to a domestic total of $15 million.

Hanging on at the bottom was the PG-rated Nickelodeon cartoon adaptation DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD with $2.1 million. The $49 million live-action movie has explored its way to $56.7 million domestic and $90.4 million worldwide.

Outside the chart, the horror adaptation SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK was frightened away, along with the R-rated wedding nightmare READY OR NOT.

And with $329 million worldwide, the R-rated comedy-drama ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD has become Quentin Tarantino's second-biggest effort as it passed the $321.5 million global finish of 2009's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS.

Next weekend has Sylvester Stallone's former Green Beret using knives, arrows and bullets to take on the Cartel in RAMBO: LAST BLOOD, while Brad Pitt takes a trip into space in AD ASTRA and the British period TV drama DOWNTON ABBEY continues in movie form.

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