Dwayne The Rock Johnson’s Rampage’ takes box office lead over A Quiet Place

Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock has delivered another commercially successful film in Rampage. The film is making a killing at the box office.

Rampage topped North American box offices over the weekend to barely beat out horror film A Quiet Place, industry figures showed Monday. Rampage stars 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 co-stars.

Dwayne Johnson in a still from Rampage.

While the three-day $35.8 million take for the new Warner Bros film was said to be one of the best ever for a video game spinoff, it will need many weeks of strong showing to make its money back on a $120 million budget. A Quiet Place, in its second week, took in a healthy $33 million, buoyed by rave reviews.

The 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.

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Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One -- a futuristic tribute to 1980s films -- took in $11.5 million to cling to fourth place in its third week out. Its budget was a not-so-minuscule $175 million. The Warner Bros. film tells the story of a teenage gamer (Wade Watts) who finds himself inside an addictive virtual reality world.

And in fifth was Blockers, a raunchy comedy from Universal starring John Cena and Leslie Mann that netted $10.8 million.