Los Angeles (AFP)

Successful Landing for "The Fall of the President": This action movie has reached the top of the North American box office for its first weekend in the dark, according to the final figures released Monday by the specialized company Exhibitor Relations.

With $ 21.4 million raised from Friday to Sunday, Ric Roman Waugh's feature film dethroned bad boys from "Good Boys".

"Angel has Fallen", in VO, tells the story of Mike Banning, played by Gerard Butler, a bodyguard of the American president who finds himself accused of being the mastermind of an assassination attempt against his boss, played by Morgan Freeman.

This is the third time Gerard Butler has stepped into Mike Banning's shoes after "The Fall of the White House" (2013) and "The Fall of London" (2016).

"Good Boys" drops to second place with 11.6 million dollars raised in three days. Twenty years after "American Pie", which he warms the recipe, this film follows the adventures of a trio of boys a dozen years laboriously trying to awaken to sexuality.

In the third place is "Overcomer", directed by Alex Kendrick, who also stars, with $ 8.1 million for its first weekend of operation, $ 8.1 million. When a basketball coach at an American high school becomes a cross-country coach and his or her only athlete is a girl with asthma, the challenge is huge. And the film full of good feelings.

"Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw", the latest installment in the popular franchise of racing cars and big muscles, is in fourth place, with $ 8.068 million (147.7 million since its release there is four weeks).

Just behind, Disney's "Lion King", who earned 8.065 million in three days. The American entertainment giant can look forward to seeing its film exceed half a billion dollars in revenues - 510.6 million - in North America in six weeks. Worldwide, the "Lion King" in its new version exceeds $ 1.5 million since its release.

Here is the rest of the Top 10:

6. "Wedding Nightmare": this horror film concludes its first North American weekend with $ 8 million in revenue;

7. "Angry Birds: Copains as pigs" (6.4 million, 27.1 million in two weeks);

8. "Scary Stories" (5.9 million, 50.4 in three weeks);

9. "Dora and the Lost City" (5.3 million, 43.2 in three weeks);

10. "Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood" (5 million, 123.2 million in five weeks).

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