Box-Office Weekend: Alien Assumes the Throne

After three weeks atop the box-office weekend top ten, Deadpool & Wolverine was unseated by newcomer Alien: Romulus by $12.5 million.

In its first weekend of release, the horror film Alien: Romulus took control fo the weekend box office with an opening of $41.5 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Meanwhile, that studio’s second film in the top ten, Deadpool & Wolverine dropped to second place with $29.0 million after three weeks in the top spot. This gives the Walt Disney Studios Motion pictures product a four-week total of $545.8 million (so there probably isn’t too much sadness involved in giving up lead to another in-studio film). Also falling a spot was It Ends with Us which dropped to third place where it took in $24.0 million for Universal Pictures, bringing its two-week total to $97.8 million. Twisters also lost ground, finishing in fourth place where it added $9.8 million for Universal Pictures to raise its five-week total to $238.4 million. The second debut of the weekend, the fifteenth anniversary re-release of Coraline courtesy of Fathom Events brought in $8.4 million over the weekend while sporting an overall total of $11.3 million.

Dropping a spot and taking over sixth-place was Despicable Me 4 with $6.0 million. This gives the Universal Pictures release a seven-week total of $340.4 million. After three weeks in release, the Warner Bros. picture Trap has brought in a total of $35.2 million, but fell a spot this weekend to land in seventh place where it added $3.4 million. The third Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product on this weekend’s top ten, Inside Out 2 fell a spot to claim eighth place with $3.2 million, giving the film a ten-week tally of $642.2 million. Meanwhile, the horror/comedy Stree 2 debuted in ninth place with $2.6 million over the last three days. Finally, its second week of release, the Lionsgate Films product, Borderlands plummeted six spots to finish in tenth place where it made $2.4 million, raising its overall total to very disappointing $13.5 million.

For a second consecutive weekend, the films in the eighth, ninth, and tenth spots of the top ten were pushed from the current list of weekend box-office winners. Despite bringing in $15.7 million for Columbia Pictures over the last three weeks, Harold and the Purple Crayon couldn’t color its way into the top ten again this weekend. After making $5.3 million over the previous two weeks, Cuckoo also floundered and failed to make the top ten this week. Finally, following a six-week run that brought in $72.9 million, Longlegs couldn’t keep pace and dropped out of the top ten this weekend.

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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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