Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Repeats on Top!

This week’s box-office weekend was essentially a repeat of last week, at least for the first two spots, as both Sony’s Spider-Man: Far from Home and Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 held firm in the first and second spots of the top ten respectively. Spider-Man: Far from Home added $45.3 million over the weekend to bring its two-week domestic total to $274.5 million. Meanwhile, Toy Story 4 tossed another $20.7 million into its coffers to give the animated film a domestic four-week tally of $346.4 million.

Two new films to the top ten finished in third and fourth place respectively. The horror film Crawl took in $12 million, laying claim to third place while the comedy Stuber earned $8 million and the bragging rights to fourth place in this week’s top ten. In its third week of release, the Beatles fable Yesterday dropped from third to fifth place with $6.8 million over the weekend, giving the film a three-week total of $48.3 million.

Dropping from fifth to sixth was Disney’s live-action retelling of Aladdin, which took in $5.9 million and drove its eight-week total to $331.5 million. Although the Disney remake did manage to leap over Annabelle Comes Home, which dropped hard from fourth to seventh place with a $5.6 million showing over the weekend, giving the horror sequel a three-week tally of $60.8 million. In its second week of release, Midsommar, fell from sixth to eighth place with $3.6 million, giving the film a two-week total of $18.4 million.

Closing out this week’s top ten, The Secret Life of Pets 2 dropped from the seventh to the ninth spot with $3.1 million over the weekend. This gives the family film a six-week total of $147.1 million. Meanwhile, Men in Black: International dropped from eight to tenth place with $2.2 this weekend, giving the science fiction sequel a disappointing five-week total of $76.5 million.

Finally, Avengers: Endgame leaves the top ten on its second go around in theaters but did manage to add approximately $476,000 to bring its domestic total to $851.2 million as well as up its worldwide cumulative total to $2.78 billion. It remans just behind Avatar [2009] ($2.788 billion) in worldwide returns, but still trails Star Wars: The Force Awakens [2015] ($936.7 million) in domestic returns. The Elton John biopic Rocketman also left the orbit of the top ten this weekend, but it departed with a seven-week domestic total of $91.9 million.

Next weekend will see the release of the new live-action version of Disney’s The Lion King, which will undoubtedly own the weekend box office, but holding off the web-slinging Spider-Man in the long run could prove difficult for Simba and his cohorts.

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Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com

An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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