Box-Office Weekend: Apes Take the Weekend

Talking apes managed to wrestle away the top spot of the box-office weekend from a stuntman as Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes finished just $6.8 million ahead of The Fall Guy

Debuting in first place to claim the box-office weekend crown was Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes with $56.5 million for 20th Century Studios. Finishing just behind that was last weekend’s top film, The Fall Guy with $13.7 million. This gives the Universal product a two-week tally of $49.7 million. Meanwhile, Challengers held onto third place with $4.7 million earned over its third weekend in release, giving the United Artists Releasing film a grand total of $38.1 million to date. Also holding steady was the Screen Gems release Tarot which took in $3.5 million over the weekend to retain the fourth spot of the top ten and bring its two-week total to $12.0 million. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire also stood firm in fifth place where it added $2.5 million, raising its seven-week total to $191.8 million for Warner Brothers.

Climbing one spot to claim seventh place this weekend was the Lionsgate Films release Unsung Hero which took in $2.3 million to bring its three-week total to $16.8 million. Also moving up a spot was Universal Pictures’ Kung Fu Panda 4 which landed in seventh place where it added $2.0 million to brings its ten-week tally to $191.2 million for the studio. This movement dropped A24’s Civil War two spots to an eighth-place finish this weekend where it added $1.8 million to bring its five-week total to $65.2 million. Last weekend’s re-release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace fell eight spots from second-place to ninth this weekend where it added $1.5 million to bring its overall intake for the re-release to $12.1 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Finally, last weekend’s ninth-place film, Abigail, dropped a spot to land in tenth-place this weekend where it added $1.1 million for Universal Pictures, lifting the film’s four-week total to $24.8 million.

Only one film was pushed out of the top ten this weekend as last week’s tenth-place film, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, failed to make this week’s list, instead settling for an eleventh-place finish. Still, over the last eight weeks, the film has brought in a total of $111.4 million for Sony Pictures Releasing.

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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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