Box office top 20: ‘Hitman’s Bodyguard’ stays on top

NEW YORK – The Samuel Jackson-Ryan Reynolds action-comedy “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” topped the North American box office for the second straight weekend, but overall business was extremely soft thanks to modest new offerings and the competition of the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor match.

Lionsgate’s “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” grossed $10.3 million in its second weekend according to final box-office figures Monday. It was followed by another holdover, the horror spinoff “Annabelle: Creation.” That Warner Bros. release earned $7.7 million in its third weekend.

But the main story was the continuing summer swoon for Hollywood. The summer as a whole is running 14 percent behind last year, according to comScore. An August especially light on new wide releases has been part of the problem. The month is 35 percent off the pace of last August.

The top 10 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore.

Box office

1. “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” $10,262,619 / $39,826,623 (2)

2. “Annabelle: Creation” $7,681,158 / $78,211,542 (3)

3. “Leap!” $4,730,038 / $4,730,038 (1)

4. “Wind River” $4,600,976 / $10,031,189 (4)

5. “Logan Lucky” $4,241,548 / $14,908,962 (2)

6. “Dunkirk” $3,948,142 / $172,477,172 (6)

7. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” $2,820,476 / $318,938,558 (8)

8. “Birth of the Dragon” $2,702,430 / $2,702,430 (1)

9. “The Emoji Movie” $2,508,570 / $76,590,041 (5)

10. “Girls Trip” $2,361,435 / $108,166,960 (6)