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The tally more than doubles of that of the #2 film.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suicide Squad,&#8221; that #2 film, added $12.1 million to its haul this weekend.  It had spent the past three weeks at #1.<\/p>\n<p>Up one place, &#8220;Kubo And The Two Strings&#8221; grabs #3 on the strength of its $7.9 million in weekend receipts.  &#8220;Sausage Party&#8221; follows at #4 (-2) with $7.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Given that predecessor &#8220;The Mechanic&#8221; only earned $11.4 million in its opening weekend, expectations were not high for &#8220;Mechanic: Resurrection.&#8221;  It did not prove those soft projections wrong.  &#8220;Resurrection&#8221; earned a mere $7.5 million and debuts at #5 on the weekend chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[7228,7152,7229,7098,6775],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Don&#039;t Breathe&quot; Dominates Weekend Box Office, &quot;Mechanic: Resurrection&quot; Starts Quietly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New release &quot;Don&#039;t Breathe&quot; easily claims the top spot on this week&#039;s US weekend box office chart. 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