Box-Office Weekend: Dinosaurs are King

Last weekend’s top film, F1: The Movie was dislodged from first place of the box-office weekend over the last three days to the tune of $65.4 million by newcomer Jurassic Park: Rebirth.

Over the course of its first weekend in release, Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World: Rebirth took in $91.5 million, easily claiming first place of the weekend’s top ten. This, added to the money the film took in due to early release on Wednesday, gives the title a one-week total of $147.3 million. Meanwhile, last week’s top film, F1: The Movie dropped to second place where it made $26.1 million for Warner Bros., giving the film a two-week tally of $109.5 million. Similarly, How to Train Your Dragon also lost a spot as it dropped from second to third this weekend, bringing in $11.0 million for Universal Pictures International. The film now sports a four-week total of $224. 0 million. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw its Elio fall from third to fourth place this weekend where it took in $5.7 million for the studio, raising its three-week total to $55.1 million for the studio. Holding its ground in fifth place was Sony Pictures Releasing’s 28 Years Later with $4.6 million, giving the film a three-week total of $60.2 million.

Falling two spots to finish in sixth place this weekend was M3GAN 2.0 which earned $3.8 million for Universal Pictures, raising the film’s two-week total to $18.6 million. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw the live-action Lilo & Stitch take in $3.8 million, which proved just enough to finish in seventh place, right behind M3GAN 2.0. The film now claims a seven-week total of $408.5 million. After seven weeks in release, and amassing a total of $191.2 million, the Paramount Pictures International product Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning dropped from seventh to eighth place where it brought in $3.3 million for the studio over the weekend. Falling one spot from last week to claim ninth place for A24 was Materialists with $1.3 million, lifting the film’s four-week total to $33.5 million. Finally, Lionsgate saw From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, or simply Ballerina, fall one spot to claim tenth place with $725,000 earned over the weekend. This brings the film’s five-week total to $57.3 million.

Only one film fell from the top ten this weekend as last week’s tenth-place finisher, Karate Kid: Legends bowed out of this week’s list after bringing in a five-week total of $51.6 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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