‘A Quiet Place’ sneaks back to top of box office

LOS ANGELES: Sci-fi horror film A Quiet Place snuck its way back to the top of the North American box offices over the weekend, beating out noisier action flick Rampage, industry estimates showed Sunday.

A Quiet Place, an almost wordless Paramount production, stars actor/director John Krasinski and real-life wife Emily Blunt as a couple silently struggling to protect their family from invading aliens that are blind but can track their prey by sound.

The film took in a US$ 22 million for a total of US$ 132.4 million since opening atop the box office early this month.

Fallen from the top spot to number two was Rampage, starring hard-working Dwayne ( The Rock) Johnson as a primatologist who befriends an albino gorilla -- which grows to enormous size after a rogue experiment and then teams with Johnson to stop invading monsters. Naomie Harris costars.

The video- game inspired Rampage took in US$ 21 million for the weekend for a total of US$ 66.6 million in two weeks, against a budget million.

In third place was I Feel Pretty, an Amy Schumer film about a self- conscious woman who suffers a head injury and subsequently sees herself as beautiful, which made US$ 16.2 million on its debut weekend.

In fourth was Super Troopers 2 -- the long- awaited sequel to the 2001 film about a ne’er- dowell group of cops -- in which the protagonists are tasked with replacing a Mountie unit in a Canadian town that is found to be part of the US.

The partially crowd-funded film made US$ 14.7 million on its first weekend.

In fifth was Truth or Dare, a supernatural thriller starring Lucy Hale and Tyler Posey as spring breakers caught up in an innocent game that turns deadly. The film made US$ 7.9 million on its second weekend. Rounding out the top 10 were: Ready Player One ( US$ 7.5 million) Blockers ( US$ 7 million) Black Panther ( US$ 4.6 million) Traffik ( US$ 3.9 million) Isle of Dogs ( US$ 3.4 million) — AFP of US$ 120