Box-Office Weekend: Sonic Takes Over

A new film claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend as Sonic the Hedgehog 3 debuted this week $27 million ahead of its closest competition.

Paramount Pictures saw its latest offering, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 take control of the box-office weekend top ten by bringing in $62 million during its first weekend in release. This easily bested second-place finisher Mufasa: The Lion King which debuted in second place with $35 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Meanwhile, last week’s second-place film, Wicked dropped to third place where it took in $13.5 million for Universal Pictures to lift its five-week total to $383.9 million. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures also saw Moana 2 fall from first to fifth place as it brought in $13.1 million this weekend, lifting its four-week tally to $359.1 million. Angel Studios enjoyed a debut in fifth place for Homestead where it brought in $6.1 million for the studio.

Gladiator II dropped two spots as it landed in sixth place this weekend where it took in $4.5 million for Paramount Pictures, bringing it five-week total to $153.9 million. Meanwhile, last weekend’s number three film, Kraven: The Hunter dropped four spots to claim seventh place this week with $3.1 million, giving the Sony Pictures Releasing product a two-week total of $17.4 million. In its second week of release, the Warner Bros. offering of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim fell three spots to land in eighth place this weekend where it added $1.3 million, bringing its overall total to $7.4 million for the studio. Last weekend’s tenth-place film, Lionsgate’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever climbed a spot to take over ninth place this weekend with $825,000, giving it a seven-week total of $38.5 million. Finally, A24 saw Queer climb into the top ten in its fourth weekend of release with $363,240 earned over the weekend, giving the film an overall total of $2.8 million.

Four films were forced from the top ten this weekend as last week’s sixth- through ninth-place films all dropped from this weekend’s list. After five weeks, Red One departs with a total of $92.5 million. Meanwhile, Pushpa: The Rule – Part 2 failed to make the cut as well after bringing in $13 million over the course of the last two weeks. The re-release of Interstellar managed to amass $15.2 million during its two week run, but fell from the top ten this weekend. Finally, after just one weekend, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem misses the top ten after bringing in a total of $2.3 million.

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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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