Box-Office Weekend: Apes Knocked Down By an IF

Newcomer IF managed to unseat Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes by just $9.0 million to claim the top spot of the box-office weekend.

In its first weekend of release, Paramount Pictures’ IF took in $35.0 million, which was enough to wrestle the number one slot away from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which brought in $26.0 million over the weekend. Despite the slide to second place, the film has still taken in $101.2 million for 20th Century Studios over the last two weeks. Debuting in third place with $12.0 million was the Lionsgate Films offering The Strangers: Chapter 1. All of this pushed last weekend’s number two film, The Fall Guy, to fourth place where it added $8.5 million over the last three days to bring its three-week total to $63.0 million for Universal Pictures. Also falling two spots was Challengers, which landed in fifth place where it added $2.9 million to raise its four-week total to $43.5 million for United Artists Releasing.

The third debut of the weekend, the Amy Winehouse biography, Back to Black, finished just behind Challengers with $2.8 million over the weekend for Focus Features. Meanwhile, last weekend’s fourth-place film, Tarot, tumbled all the way to seventh place were it made $2.0 million for Screen Gems. This gives the film a three-week total of $15.4 million. Falling three spots and landing in eighth-place was Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. The film added $1.7 million for Warner Bros. in its eighth week of release to lift its overall total to $194.4 million. The final debut of the weekend, The Blue Angels, claimed ninth place with $1.3 million in it first weekend of release. Finally, after finishing in sixth place last weekend, the Lionsgate Films product, Unsung Hero, landed in tenth place this weekend where it added $1.1 million to bring its overall total to $19.1 million for the studio.

Four films were knocked out of the top ten this weekend as last weekend’s seventh- through tenth-place films all failed to make this weekend’s list. After eleven weeks, Kung Fu Panda 4 fell from the seventh spot after bringing in $192.7 million for Universal Pictures. Meanwhile, Civil War couldn’t hold onto eighth place, instead settling for a six-week total of $67.3 million for A24. After three weeks in re-release and amassing an additional $12.9 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, last weekend’s ninth-place film, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, couldn’t crack the top ten again this weekend. Finally, after five weeks, last weekend’s tenth-place film, Abigail, leaves the top ten after bringing in $25.6 million for Universal Pictures.

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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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