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Box Office Weekend: Aquaman Nails the Triple Lindy

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the third week in a row, Aquaman remains perched atop the weekend box office. The film took in an additional $30.7 million, giving it a three-week total of $260 million and a worldwide total over $940 million, making it the highest grossing film worldwide in the DC Extended Universe.

Elsewhere, the erstwhile horror film, Escape Room, debuted with $18 million, giving it a firm hold on second place. Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns finished the weekend bringing in $15.8 million to push its three-week total to $138.7 million as it dropped one spot to third place. The animated Sony/Marvel film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse continues to do tremendous business, taking in $13 million this weekend and retaining its hold on the fourth spot. This brings the film’s four-week total to $133.9 million. With $12.8 million this weekend, Bumblebee dropped from the third to the fifth spot, but still boasts a three-week total of $97.1 million.

Director Clint Eastwood’s latest, The Mule, took in just over $9 million in its fourth week of release, giving it a domestic total of approximately $81.1 million. Elsewhere, the Dick Cheney biopic Vice starring Christian Bale, fell from the sixth to the seventh spot with $5.8 million, giving it a two-week total of $29.8 million. The Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy Second Act took in $4.9 million in its third week, giving it a cumulative total of approximately $33 million. In its seventh week of release, the animated sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet, brought in $4.7 million, giving it a domestic total of $187.2 million.

Finally, the (ahem) comedy, Holmes and Watson, looks poised to vacate the top ten after only two weeks in release with a $3.4 million showing over the weekend giving it a grand total of $28.4 million and a tenth-place finish. Bowing out of the top ten this weekend was the Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, which managed to add another $2.4 million to raise its ten-week domestic total to approximately $193 million amidst a Golden Globe award for star Rami Malek over the weekend, which could mean even more business for the film in the coming weeks.

Looking forward, next weekend boasts a few new releases including the family-friendly A Dog’s Way Home; a dramedy of sorts starring Kevin Hart and Brian Cranston called The Upside; and the latest vehicle for Keanu Reeves, the sci-fi thriller Replicas.

Weekend Box Office (January 4th – January 6th)

  1. Aquaman…$30.7 Million
  2. Escape Room…$18 Million
  3. Mary Poppins Returns…$15.8 Million
  4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse…$13 Million
  5. Bumblebee…$12.8 Million
  6. The Mule…$9 Million
  7. Vice…$5.8 Million
  8. Second Act…$4.9 Million
  9. Ralph Breaks the Internet…$4.7 Million
  10. Holmes and Watson…$2.4 Million

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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