Box-Office Weekend: Challengers Claims Crown

After two weeks atop the box-office weekend, Civil War was pushed from the number one spot (and then some) and replaced by Challengers which took first place by a margin of $7.2 million.

In its first weekend of release, the United Artists Releasing product starring Zendaya, Challengers debuted in first place with a total of $15.0 million. This was enough to easily best second-place finisher Unsung Hero which debuted with a total of $7.8 million earned for Lionsgate Films. Meanwhile, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire held its ground at number three where it added $7.2 million over its fifth weekend in release to bring its overall total for Warner Bros. to $181.7 million. All of this pushed last weekend’s top film, Civil War, to fourth place where it took in $7.0 million for A24, giving the film a three-week total of $56.2 million. Also falling three spots was Universal Pictures’ Abigail which dropped from second to fifth place this weekend where it added $5.3 million for Universal Pictures, lifting its two-week tally to $18.8 million.

Losing two spots and dropping from fourth to sixth place this weekend was The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare where it brought in $3.9 million for Lionsgate Films, raising its two-week total to $15.4 million. Falling one spot to land in seventh place, Kung Fu Panda 4 took in $3.6 million for Universal Pictures to bring the film’s eight-week total to $185.0 million. Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Releasing squeezed $3.3 million out of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire during its ninth weekend of release to raise its overall total to $107.4 million. With a nine-week total of $279.7 million, Dune: Part Two also dropped a spot to finish in ninth-place where it added $2.0 million over the weekend for Warner Brothers. Finally, the third debut of the weekend, Boy Kills World claimed the tenth spot of the weekend box office with $1.7 million.

Three films were pushed out of the top ten during this box-office weekend. After debuting in fifth place last weekend, Crunchyroll’s Spy x Family Code: White could not crack the top ten again this week, instead settling for a two-week total of $7.1 million. Meanwhile, the Universal Pictures product Monkey Man lost it’s hold on ninth place as it dropped from the top ten with a four-week tally of $23.9 million. Finally, after four weeks in release, last weekend’s tenth-place film, The First Omen dropped out of the top ten after bringing in $19.2 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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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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