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Posted March 9, 2025 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: Mickey Defeats the Captain

A new film took control of the box-office weekend as Mickey 17 ousted Captain America: Brave New World from the top spot by a $10.6 million margin.

"Mickey 17" posterWith a three-day debut of $19.1 million, Mickey 17 easily took control of the box-office weekend top ten, giving Warner Bros. the top film this weekend. This, of course, pushed four-time box-office champ, Captain America: Brave New World to second place where it took in $8.5 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, bringing its four-week tally to $176.6 million. Meanwhile, Focus Features saw Last Breath fall to third place with $4.2 million taken in over the weekend, lifting the film’s two-week total to $14.7 million. In its third weekend of release, The Monkey fell to fourth where it made $3.9 million for Neon, while giving the film a $31 million overall total. Sony Pictures Releasing’s Paddington in Peru landed in fifth place where is made $3.85 million for the studio, raising its four-week total to $37.1 million in the process.

In its sixth weekend of release, DreamWorks Distribution’s Dog Man dropped a spot to land in sixth place where it added $3.5 million over the last three days to bring its overall total to $88.8 million. In its twenty-first week in release, the NEON product Anora cracked the top ten to land in seventh place this weekend with $1.9 million. This gives the film an overall total of $18.4 million. Falling two spots to land in eighth place this weekend, Mufasa: The Lion King took in $1.7 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, bringing the film’s twelve-week total to $250.5 million. Angel Studios saw its Rule Breakers break into the top ten in the ninth spot where it took in $1.6 million in its first weekend of release. Finally, the Viva Pictures product Night of Zoopocalypse cracked the top ten with $1.1 million over the weekend to claim the tenth and final spot this week.

This weekend saw four films forced from the top ten as last week’s seventh- through eighth-place films all succumbed to this weekend’s newcomers. After five weeks in release, the Screen Gems product Heart Eyes departs the top ten with a total of $29.9 million. After finishing in eighth place last weekend, The Unbreakable Boy leaves the top teen with a three-week tally of $5.7 million. The Sony Pictures Releasing offering One of Them Days also dropped from the top ten this weekend but not before amassing $48.5 million over the last eight weeks. Finally, after one weekend in release and bring in $882,471, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning also exits this weekend’s top ten.

Weekend Box Office (March 7th – March 9th)

    1. Mickey 17…$19.1 Million
    2. Captain America: Brave New World …$8.5 Million
    3. Last Breath…$4.2 Million
    4. The Monkey…$3.9 Million
    5. Paddington in Peru …$3.85 Million
    6. Dog Man…$3.5 Million
    7. Anora…$1.9 Million
    8. Mufasa: The Lion King…$1.7 Million
    9. Rule Breakers…$1.6 Million
    10. Night of the Zoopocalypse…$1.1 Million
Mike Tyrkus

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.