A change at the top of the US box office chart as the third in the Creed series of movies, Creed III tops the US box office on its debut weekend.

Also new on the top 5 this weekend is Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Swordsmith Village at number 4 while the new Guy Ritchie movie Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre makes its debut at 7 with £3.1 Million while Indina movie RRR is new at 15 with an RRR Fan CelebRRRation which makes its debut with $197,003.

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 3rd - 5th March 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

The Creed franchise is now starting to get as many movies as the Rocky franchise which gave birth to it, but here we are with the third movie which makes an incredible debut with $58 Million.

The movie is directed by its star Micheal B. Jordan and with the film being well received by audiences a Creed IV may not be far behind, interestingly Rocky IV was one of that series most popular movies.

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks US box office chart.
• It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
• It grosses $58,658,008 on its debut weekend
• The movie is the 6th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Creed II which took $35,574,710 at the box office after 1 week in cinemas.

After a couple of weeks at the top the third in the Ant-Man series of movies falls to number 3 with a gross of $12.4 Million for the weekend.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weeks US box office
• It grosses $12,471,000 over the weekend, a 61% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $186,799,000 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Ant-Man and the Wasp which took $165,005,448 at the box office after 3 weeks of release.

The 'based on a true story' movie falls to number 3 this weekend after making its debut at number 2 with a weekend take of $11 Million, a large 52% drop.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks US box office
• It grosses $11,020,000 over the weekend, a 52% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $41,288,320 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2023

Following on from the 2020 movie Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train the latest movie in the series makes its US debut at 4 with $10 Million, half that of its predecessor.

• The movie is a new entry on this weeks US box office
• It grosses $10,117,806 on its debut weekend
• The movie is the 18th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train which took $21,234,994 at the box office after 1 week in cinemas.

The faith based movie has a decent second weekend on the US box office falling to number 5 with a 44% drop in weeeknd grosses for a total of $30 Million.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weeks US box office
• It grosses $8,650,000 over the weekend, a 44% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $30,541,391 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is the 12th top grossing film so far in 2023

Disney release their big holiday animation Ralph Breaks The Internet over the American Thanksgiving weekend and along with Creed II also making its debut and strong holdovers it makes for a record weekly take with the top 10 grossing over $200 million.

Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck It Ralph 2

The latest Disney movie had plenty of hype and hence opens at the top of the US box office with a $55 million 3 day weekend and an $85 million 5 day weekend which includes the Wednesday and Thursday of Thanksgiving

This means that the new Ralph film is running $15 million ahead of its 2012 predecessor over the same period and should end up grossing far more in the long run.

Creed II

The follow up to Creed from 2015 and spiritual follow up to Rocky IV from 1986 the Micheal B. Jordan starring movie opens at number 2 with a $35 million opening 3 days and a $55 million 5 day Thanksgiving.

This is far higher than the original movies opening by $14 million.

The Grinch

The Grinch drops to number 3 this week after 3 weeks of release with a $30 million weekend gross, the film now has a total US gross of $180.5 million.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

After opening big last weekend the new Fantastic Beasts film runs into trouble this week and falls hard to number 4 with a weekend gross of just $29.6 million which brings the films 10 gross to a relatively poor $117 million.

Bohemian Rhapsody

One film which has done better than expected and this week sits at number 5 is the Queen bio-pic which this week takes $13 million for a $152 million total US gross.

Robin Hood

One film that has not done too well on its debut weekend is the new Robin Hood movie starring Taron Egerton which limps onto the box office chart at number 7 with a poor $9.1 million gross.

Looking like a true sequel to 1986's Rocky IV this sequel to 2016's Creed puts Apollo Creed's Son against Ivan Drago's son.

For those who don't remember Ivan Drago killed Apollo Creed in the ring before being defeated by Rocky Balboa at the end of the film.

The BBFC have given Creed II a 12A rating for moderate violence, language and the film has a run time of 130 minutes (2hrs 10 Minutes).

CREED 2 (12A) moderate violence, language https://t.co/vZMgJYlSnz

— BBFC (@BBFC) November 14, 2018

The Rocky films have in a small way gone against the grain of sequels not being as good as the previous film and Rocky IV was a great film, now 30 years later Rocky and Ivan Drago face off again.

This time its in the spin off Creed series starring Sylvester Stallone as Balboa and Micheal B. Jordan as Apollo Creed's son Adonis.

This time Adonis faces off against Drago's son Viktor Drago.

The trailer is exciting and brings back many memories of the old Rocky series, the film is directed by Steven Caple Jr. and released in the UK on 30th November 2018.