With cinemas currently closed around the US due to the COVID-19 pandemic, drive-ins are often determining which films top the box office, and it's not always new movies. This weekend, for the first time since its 1997 Special Edition re-release, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back has topped the box office, Deadline reports.

　　The second Star Wars movie is expected to have earned between $400K and $500K across 483 locations across the weekend of July 10-12, which is enough for it to take the top spot. Black Panther and Inside Out are expected to land in 2nd and 3rd.

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　　Other classic movies to top the box office over the last few weeks include Ghostbusters (July 3-5) and Jurassic Park (June 19-21). The figures they are earning are, of course, significantly less than a new movie would typically earn--before the pandemic, it was almost unheard of in the last decade for the top movie of any particular weekend to open to below $10 million.

　　New cinema releases continue to be delayed--Tenet was due in July, but is now scheduled for an August 12 release, and Wonder Woman 1984 is delayed until October.

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　　Here are the top 5 film grosses worldwide for 2020 so far, according to Box Office Mojo:

　　Bad Boys For Life ($419,074,646)Sonic the Hedgehog ($306,766,470)Dolittle ($223,343,452)Birds of Prey ($201,858,461)The Invisible Man ($125,678,485)A new major Star Wars game, Star Wars Squadrons, is releasing on October 2 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.