All three films that are new to the box office this weekend, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Fall, and Mack & Rita, have failed to crack the Top 5 of the weekend. 2022 has been a truly unique time for the domestic box office as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to make box office grosses entirely unpredictable. While tentpole films like The Batman and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness are still proving their worth with solid grosses, and Top Gun: Maverick is breaking records as one of the highest-grossing domestic films of all time, the overall box office for this summer is quickly dwindling as the big budget blockbusters dry up following last weekend's release of the Brad Pitt actioner Bullet Train.

This weekend's new releases weren't exactly expected to make a huge splash to begin with. The buzziest was certainly Bodies Bodies Bodies, the A24 slasher satire of Gen Z culture that features a performance from SNL alum and Kim Kardashian ex Pete Davidson, opening wide after a limited release on August 5. The other projects filling out theaters this weekend were Fall, about two young women who are trapped on top of a radio tower with no way down, and Mack & Rita, which stars Diane Keaton as a young woman who is accidentally transformed into her 70-year-old self.

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Per Variety, Bullet Train has taken the #1 slot at the domestic box office for the second weekend in a row, but none of the three movies that opened wide this week even landed in the Top 5. Bodies Bodies Bodies, which took in $3.2 million, is currently at #8, Fall is at #10 with $2.5 million, and Mack & Rita is all the way down at #13 with $1.5 million. The other films in the Top 5 are Nope at #5 and Thor: Love and Thunder at #4, followed by a tight race for #2 that's currently too close to call between DC League of Super-Pets and the box office juggernaut Top Gun: Maverick, currently in its 12th weekend.

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Across every single movie in the domestic box office this weekend, old and new, the complete total has reached $66 million, which is the lowest of the entire summer. In fact, it's less than half of what Thor: Love and Thunder made in its opening weekend, alone. This is not entirely unexpected, as August tends to be the time when the summer movie season cools off, with box office receding somewhat until the Thanksgiving holiday, peppered with occasional Halloween-time successes.

This year, there is not much that is looking to pull the box office out of its overall doldrums until Don't Worry Darling in late September. That film, which stars Harry Styles and Florence Pugh, will kick off a run of weekly mid-tier releases through mid-October, when Blumhouse's trilogy-capping Halloween Ends and Black Adam will likely pick up the slack. In the meantime, theaters will have to strive to find a way to make up for the hat trick of Bodies Bodies Bodies, Fall, and Mack & Rita's underperformance.

Source: Variety