While Mortal Kombat took top honors last weekend, Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train takes over at the top this weekend with the slimmest of margins.

The top new movie of the weekend is Separation which makes its debut at number 4.

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• Number 1 - Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train (1st Weekend)
• Highest debut - Seperation (@4)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age (23 weeks)
• Hight total gross - Godzilla Vs. Kong ($90 Million)

US box office top 5 breakdown 30th April - 2nd May 2021

Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train

The Chinese hit movie might have missed out on a debut at the top but it climbs to pole position on its second weekend of release.

The movie takes $6.4 Million on its second weekend of release, a massive 70% drop from last weekend, which pushes the total US gross to $34.11 Million.

Mortal Kombat

Falling into second place after its debut at the top is the video game adaptation which takes $6.2 Million over the weekend, a 73% drop from last weekend.

The movie is having a fight with Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train and after 2 weeks of release has taken a slither less with $34.1 Million.

Godzilla Vs. Kong

Top movie in the US of the year so far stays put at number 3 with $2.74 Million, a slim 36% drop from last weekend.

After 5 weeks the movie has now taken $90.3 Million and should reach $100 Million before the end of its cinema run.

Separation

Highest new movie of the weekend is the William Brent Bell directed horror movie which takes $1.83 million on its debut.

Raya and the Last Dragon

Disney's animated smash stays put at number 5 this weekend with $1.33 Million, a tiny 23% drop from last weekend, giving the movie a $41.58 Million total gross over 9 weeks of release.

Avengers Age of Ultron is still dominating the world this week on it's third week of release help in no small part by it having a very good second weekend in America.

A world gross of $145 million saw it very comfortably retain its lead over the rest, although it does have by far the greatest territory release with 91 countries.

Furious 7 is still the second film with a world gross of $24 million for the week and with a world total of $1.4 billion to looks set to overtake the original Avengers Assemble film as the third highest of all time.

The rest of the top 5 is filled out with Hot Pursuit at 3, Chappie at 4 and Home at 5.

Highest new film is Pitch Perfect 2 which had a early release in 2 territories and makes number 6 with $8.8 million putting it in good shape when it has a full release this week.

The full top ten looks like this

1. Avengers: Age Of Ultron - $145,503,000
2. Fast and Furious 7 - $24,872,020
3. Hot Pursuit - $14,700,000
4. Chappie - $9,800,000
5. Home - $9,000,000
6. Pitch Perfect 2 - $8,800,000
7. The Age Of Adaline - $8,200,000
8. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 - $8,190,000
9. Cinderella - $5,574,000
10. Silent Separation - $5,500,000