Spy thriller Argylle remains at the top of the US box office for a second weekend with a gross of $6.2 Million which takes the movies total gross to $28.5 Million over its 2 weekends at the top.

Highest new movie of the weekend is the '80's set horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein which comes in at 2.

The movie makes its debut with a $3.6 Million weekend gross.

Hit movie Wonka spends its 9th weekend in the box office this week and has a total US gross of $205 Million, crossing another milestone in the process.

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 9th - 11th February 2024

• The movie remains at number 1 on this weekends US box office
• It has spent 2 weeks at the top of the US box office.
• It grosses $6,249,360 over the weekend, a 64% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $28,563,505 after 2 weekends of release
• The movie is the 9th top grossing film so far in 2024

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weekends US box office chart.
• It has a total gross of $3,695,785 after 1 weekends of release

• The movie remains at number 3 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $3,398,372 over the weekend, a 36% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $54,663,224 after 5 weekends of release
• The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2024

• The movie remains at number 4 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $3,056,430 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $205,183,453 after 9 weekends of release
• The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2024

• The movie remains at number 5 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $2,935,590 over the weekend, a 30% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $110,065,035 after 8 weekends of release
• The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2024

We are still relying on data mainly from Drive-in theatres but we have a new number 1 film this week in the shape of horror movie Becky which makes its debut at the top knocking The Wretched from the top.

What is nice is that we are closing in on having a full top 10 this week! There is only a month before we should start seeing things ramping up and cinemas opening, at least the ones who survive!

Here is a rundown of the top 5 movies in the US this weekend.

Becky

From directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion comes this comedy thriller which takes the top spot on its debut week of release with just over $205K from 45 theatres.

The Wretched

After spending an incredible 5 weeks at the top the Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce directed movie falls to number 2 with just over $205k, in fact it is just $600 off being at the top!

The movie has not taken just over a Million dollars on its 6 week run.

Max Winslow and the House of Secrets

Director Sean Olson's movie is at number 3 this week with $1,231 as it brings its total US gross to $2,360 after 2 weeks of release.

Strike

Trevor Hardy's animated movie takes $795 on its 4th weekend of release for an $11.6K total.

Sex and the Future

This would normall have disappeared from anywhere without trace but the Luis Carlos Hueck and Ethan Zvi Kaplan directed movie takes $745 on its debut to enter at 5.

Sony and online DVD/Blu-ray rental company Lovefilm have today announced that it will be delivering movies via the internet to owners of Sony internet TV's.

In the same week that bricks and mortar video rental company Blockbuster announce that unless they have an injection of cash they will go bankrupt, one of the more successful online rental companies announce a deal that could amount to the final nail in the video shop coffin.

Movie rentals via the likes of the Playstation Network via a Playstation 3 or XBox Live via an XBox 360 have been with us for a while and proved successful, the internet TV delivers is in essence an extenuation of this.

Samsung are also in negations to offer a similar service and as people replace their TV's the replacement will most likely be internet enabled allowing the service to grow in time.

Is this another example of the physical media being a thing of the past, in the future will our film collection be in the "cloud" and we stream the movie when we want to watch it, will our film collections be Lovefilms catalogue?

I personally still like the idea of physical media, it's still fun and exciting, maybe I'm just an old fossil that needs to accept the future?

Whatever happens it looks like the video shop is going to be a thing of the past, no-one knows this more that Blockbuster Video the once king of the rental market who didn't move with the times and will go bust by the end of the year. As a former employee of the company I cant help but feel sad about that.

I have to admit that I have used and enjoyed the Xbox 360 Live movie rentals on a number of occasions, and enjoyed the service, my only issue being the download time to get the film.

When renting a standard def movie the download time isn't all that bad, but download a HD movie and forget it, especially over wireless, I'm talking days, not hours, and that's only 720p

In their E3 conference yesterday Microsoft announced that they would be changing the system soon to have 1080p high def movies, not you may be thing that would take weeks to download, but no, Microsoft are going to off instantly available movies.

No work yet on pricing or exact availability, or if this will be good over wireless as I'm sure many users will have on their Xbox, but this could be the start of something good for movie rentals, this country needs it with the lack of a good rental service available.