Chainsaw Man anime tops U.S. box office, Springsteen disappoints

The Japanese anime Chainsaw Man - The Film: Reze's Story triumphs at the North American box office, debuting at the top of the list, while the highly anticipated biopic on Bruce Springsteen. The film produced by Mappa Studio, directed by by Tatsuya Yoshihara and based on the original story Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto, dark fantasy story of the teenager orphan Denji who is killed by the yakuza but is reborn by merging with his pet devil, he raked in the first weekend $17.2 million in theaters. It falls to second place, with $13 million in weekend, the horror Black Phone 2 with Ethan Hawke. Regretting You - Everything I Didn't Tell You, the last one adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel after It Ends with Us last year, debuts in third place with 12.8 million of dollars. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nothing, the long-awaited biopic about the Boss directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeremy Allen White, had to settle for a disappointing fourth place with 7 million dollars. Closing the top five is Tron: Ares, the latest chapter of the Disney sci-fi action saga with Jared Leto, with $4.7 million.