"Bad Guys" features a voice cast including Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos and Lily Singh.
Universal's animated action-comedy "The Bad Guys" again topped the North American box office this weekend with an estimated $16.1 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.
"Bad Guys," a raccoon-centric version of "Ocean's 11," benefited from a relatively quiet moviegoing weekend, with the next big superhero movie — Disney's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" — opening next Friday.
A DreamWorks Animation production, "Bad Guys" features a voice cast including Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos and Lily Singh.
Paramount's family-friendly "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" once again took second place for the Friday to Sunday period, grossing $11.4 million.
Its four-week domestic total of $160.9 million surpassed the original "Sonic"'s $148 million—a rare feat for a pandemic-era film.
Warner Bros. "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore" maintained its third place finish, grossing $8.3 million. To date, it is the lowest grossing "Harry Potter" film.
Fourth place again went to "The Northman" from Focus Features, for $6.3 million. The blood-soaked Viking story stars Alexander Skarsgrd.
And in fifth place, up one spot from the previous week, was "Everything Everywhere All At Once" at $5.5 million. Michelle Yeoh stars in the genre-bending film as a beleaguered laundromat owner who is called upon to save the world — or the world.
"April was another good month at the domestic box office," said David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research, adding that the past two months have shown a "massive improvement" over last summer's pathetic pandemic-scar numbers.
Rounding out the top 10 this weekend were:
"The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent ($3.9 million)
"The Lost City" ($3.9 million)
"Memory" ($3.1 million)
"Father Stu" ($2.2 million)
"Morbius" ($1.5 million)..AFP