'The Invitation' tops North American box office over opening weekend

Sony Pictures' horror film "The Invitation" led ticket sales at the North American box office with an estimated three-day cume of 7 million U.S. dollars on its opening weekend, showed figures from the measurement firm Comscore on Sunday.

It's the lowest-grossing No. 1 film since May 2021 in North America.

Directed by Jessica M. Thompson, the film stars Nathalie Emmanuel as a young woman who, after her mother's death, meets her family for the first time and is soon thrust into a nightmare of survival as she uncovers twisted secrets in the family's history.

The film holds an approval rating of only 26 percent based on 27 reviews to date on the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.

Sony Pictures' action comedy film "Bullet Train" came in second with 5.6 million dollars on its fourth weekend, pushing its North American cume to 78.2 million dollars through Sunday.

Rounding out the top three, Universal Pictures' thriller "Beast" brought in 4.9 million dollars on its second weekend for a North American total of 20.09 million dollars.