Box-Office Weekend: Ant-Man Still Huge

Despite two newcomers to the box-office weekend, Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania held onto the top spot over the weekend by a margin of $10.1 million.

While Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania didn’t equal its opening week blockbuster earnings, it did finish in first place with $32.2 million in its second weekend of release. This was $10.1 million more than second-place finisher Cocaine Bear which debuted in the second spot with $23.1 million. Meanwhile, the weekend’s second debut, Jesus Revolution, claimed third place with $15.5 million in its first weekend of release. These debuts pushed last weekend’s number two film, Avatar: The Way of Water, to fourth place with $4.7 million, giving the film an eleven-week total of $665.4 million. Falling a spot to finish in fifth place this weekend was the animated Puss in Boots: The Last Wish as it added $4.1 million over the weekend to raise its ten-week tally to $173.4 million.

Dropping three spots to sixth-place this weekend was Magic Mike’s Last Dance which added $1.89 million over the last three days to bring its overall total to $22.2 million. This movement also pushed Knock at the Cabin to seventh-place with $1.87 million. The film now claims a four-week total of $33.9 million. Landing in eighth-place was 80 for Brady as it fell two spots and finishing just behind the last two films with $1.8 million. The female-driven comedy now has a four-week total of $36.4 million. Holding steady in ninth-place was Missing which managed to find $1.0 million to lift its six-week total to $31.4 million. Again, Tom Hanks and A Man Called Otto claimed the final spot of the top ten, but only with $850,000 this weekend (though the film does have a nine-week tally of $62.3 million).

Again, two films were forced from the weekend box office over the past three days as the re-released Titanic finished just beyond the top ten after finishing in seventh-place last weekend. Still, the film added $14.5 million over the last three weeks to its already impressive initial total. Last weekend’s eighth-place film, Marlowe departs the top ten after amassing $3.4 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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