Box-Office Weekend: Venom Threepeats

For the third consecutive week, Venom: The Last Dance held the top spot of the box-office weekend as it bested the second-place film by $5.1 million.

In its third weekend of release, Venom: The Last Dance again finished in first place amidst the top ten of the weekend box office. The film brought in $16.2 million this weekend, bringing its overall total to $114.8 million for Sony Pictures Releasing. Meanwhile, Lionsgate saw The Best Christmas Pageant Ever debut in second place with $11.1 million over the weekend. The second debut of the weekend, A24’s Heretic, claimed third place just behind that with $11.0 million. Universal Pictures saw The Wild Robot drop two spots to a fourth-place finish this weekend where it added $6.7 million, giving it a seven-week total of $130.9 million. The Paramount Pictures product, Smile 2, dropped two spots to land in fifth place where it added $5.0 million in its fourth weekend of release to raise its overall total to $60.5 million for the studio.

The third film to fall two spaces in this weekend’s top ten, Conclave, finished in sixth place with $4.1 million after claiming fourth place last weekend. The film now has a three-week total of $21.5 million. The final debut of the weekend, Neon’s Anora, made its debut in the top ten in seventh place where it brought in $2.45 million, giving the film a four-week total of $7.2 million. Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Releasing saw Here fall three spots to finish in eighth place this weekend with $2.42 million, giving it a two-week total of $9.5 million. Last weekend’s sixth-place film, A24’s We Live in Time fell to ninth place this weekend where it took in $2.2 million, bringing its five-week total to $21.8 million. Last, but not least, Cineverse saw Terrifier 3 fall three spots to finish in tenth place with $1.5 million this weekend, giving the film a five-week total of $53.3 million.

Three films fell from the top ten this weekend as the eighth- thru tenth-place finishers from last weekend all failed to make this weekend’s list. After amassing $2.23 million, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 ended its short stay in the top ten after one week. Similarly, with $2.19 million, Singham Again also made way for other films in the top ten this weekend. Finally, after bringing in $293.6 million over the last ten weeks, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice departs the top ten.

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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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