Box-Office Weekend: SCREAM 7 is #1

Box Office Weekend

A new film stands atop the weekend box-office top ten as Scream 7 debuted in first place by a whopping margin of $52.1 million.

“Scream 7” posterOver the course of its debut weekend, the Paramount Pictures International release Scream 7 debuted in the number one spot of the box-office weekend top ten with $64.1 million taken in over the last three days. This was far more than needed to push last week’s top film, GOAT, to second place where it added $12.0 million to lift its three-week total to $73.9 million for Sony Pictures Releasing. Last weekend’s second-place film, Wuthering Heights, landed in third place this weekend with $7.1 million. This brings the Warner Bros. release’s three-week total to $72.3 million. Meanwhile, Trafalgar Releasing saw its Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined debut in fourth place where it took in $4.3 million for the studio. Following a seventh-place debut last weekend, Neon’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert climb two place to claim fifth place this weekend with $3.5 million, giving the film a two-week total of $7.8 million.

In its third week of release, the Amazon MGM Studios product, Crime 101 dropped two spots from last weekend to land in sixth place where it brought in $3.4 million for the studio. This gave the film an overall total of $30.1 million. Meanwhile, Lionsgate’s I Can Only Imagine 2 fell from third place to seventh place where it took in $3.1 million, giving the film a two-week total of $13.3 million. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw its Send Help drop to eighth place after claiming fifth last weekend. With $2.8 million taken in this weekend, Send Help brings its five-week total to $59.9 million. Falling three spots from last weekend, A24’s How to Make a Killing landed in ninth place securing $1.6 million for the studio in its second weekend of release – giving the film a cumulative total of $6.3 million. After a ninth-place finish last weekend, Zootopia 2 found itself in tenth place where it brought in $1.4 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, giving the film a fourteen-week total of $425.8 million.

Two films found themselves thrust from the top ten this weekend. After an eighth-place finish last weekend, the Angel release of Solo Mio dropped from the top ten with a four-week total of $24.0 million. Over the past eleven weeks, Avatar: Fire and Ash has brought in a total of $401.2 million for 20th Century Studios, but the film could not hold onto its tenth-place finish from seven days ago.

Weekend Box Office
(February 27th – March 1st)

    1. Scream 7…$64.1 Million
    2. GOAT…$12.0 Million
    3. Wuthering Heights…$7.1 Million
    4. Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined…$4.3 Million
    5. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert…$3.5 Million
    6. Crime 101…$3.4 Million
    7. I Can Only Imagine 2…$3.1 Million
    8. Send Help…$2.8 Million
    9. How to Make a Killing…$1.6 Million
    10. Zootopia 2…$1.4 Million
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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