Box Office Weekend: Apes Best Wall Crawler to Take Box Office

The latest film in the Planet of the Apes series, War for the Planet of the Apes debuted in first place this weekend with an estimated $56.5 million. Though that was a bit below the $163 million Spider-Man: Homecoming brought in last week, it was still an impressive number given the competition it faced this week.

Meanwhile, the Spider-Man reboot finished in second place, dropping more than 60% to earn $45.2 million. Despicable Me 3 continued respectable business finishing in third place with $18.9 million (giving the film a three-week total of $188 million). Baby Driver fell from third to fourth place, earning $8.8 million (a bit less than the $20+ million it brought in last weekend). The Big Sick improved on its third-week total of $5.2 million by bringing in $7.6 million this weekend and climbing all the way to the fifth spot in this week’s top ten.

Wonder Woman continued to pile on the money with another $6.9 million to bring its seven-week total over $380 million, which was good enough to lock it into sixth place. Newcomer Wish Upon managed $5.6 million despite relatively poor reviews. Cars 3 continued to do respectable, if not spectacular, business with $3.2 million to bring its five-week total to $140 million, which was good enough for eighth place this week.

Transformers: The Last Knight managed another $2.8 million this week, bringing its four-week total to $124.9 million which must, in some small way signify the death (at least on some level) of this franchise. Finally, the Will Ferrell/Amy Poehler vehicle The House took in $1.8 million to bring its three-week total to $23.1 million as it prepares to take leave of the top ten next week.

War for the Planet of the Apes will have stiffer competition next weekend as two auteurs prepare to battle at the box office when Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets opens alongside Christopher Nolan’s war epic Dunkirk.

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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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