'Project Hail Mary' tops N America box office for second week

Space adventure flick 'Project Hail Mary' topped the North American box office for a second straight week with $54.5 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed on Sunday.
Ryan Gosling stars in the Amazon MGM film as a teacher-turned-astronaut who awakes on a spaceship with a mission to save Earth from a sun-dimming phenomenon.
It is adapted from a novel by Andy Weir, the author behind the 2015 hit 'The Martian' starring Matt Damon.
Standing firm in second place was Disney/Pixar animated hit 'Hoppers', with $12.2 million in the United States and Canada, according to Exhibitor Relations.
The latest original film from Disney's Pixar tells the story of a young animal lover who uses technology to transfer her consciousness into a robotic beaver so she can better communicate and protect wildlife.
Debuting in third place was horror flick 'They Will Kill You', at $5 million.
The Warner Bros film — which stars Zazie Beetz (TV's 'Atlanta'), Tom Felton (of 'Harry Potter' fame) and Oscar winner Patricia Arquette — tells the tale of a woman working as a maid in a mysterious New York building where disappearances are common.
'These are respectable numbers for an original horror comedy with a modest budget of around $20 million to produce', said analyst David A Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. 'Foreign business should be solid'.
Fourth place went to Hindi-language spy thriller 'Dhurandhar: The Revenge' with $4.75 million.
Released just three months after the original aired in North America, 'Dhurandhar' continues the story of an Indian spy infiltrating Pakistani crime syndicates and politics, seeking to dismantle a terror network.
Considered political propaganda by some of India's neighbours, it has been notably banned in Pakistan.
Fifth place went to Universal's romance film 'Reminders of Him', with $4.7 million.
It is the latest adaptation of a novel by Colleen Hoover and stars Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers. — AFP