Box-Office Weekend: Avengers: Infinity War Tops Box Office Again

Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War decided to celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend by topping the box office for a third consecutive week. Taking in $61.8 million, the film brought its three-week tally to an impressive $547.8 million, making it the eighth largest domestic release ever. Worldwide, the film has become the fifth largest global release of all time as it has earned a staggering $1.6 billion—just behind Jurassic World (2015) which earned $1.67 billion.

Two new releases took the next two spots in this week’s top ten. The Melissa McCarthy-led comedy Life of the Party debuted with $18.5 million, landing it in second place. Just behind that, with $16.5 million, was the thriller Breaking In, starring Gabrielle Union. The unnecessary remake of Overboard finished its second week of release in fourth place with $10.1 million, giving it a two-week total of $29.6 million.

The other thriller on this week’s list, A Quiet Place, finished in the fifth spot adding $6.4 million to bring its six-week domestic total to $169.6 million. Elsewhere, Amy Schumer and I Feel Pretty brought in $3.7 million to give the comedy a domestic four-week tally of $43.9 million and a sixth-place finish on our list this week.

Finishing in seventh place was the Dwayne Johnson-led adventure Rampage with $3.4 million. This gives the film a five-week $89.7 million total, which must be a bit disappointing to the studio given that the film cost an estimated $120 million to make in the first place. Charlize Theron and Tully finished in eighth place with $2.2 million, giving that film a two-week total of $7.0 million.

Ninth place belongs to the king of Wakanda, as Marvel’s Black Panther took in $1.9 million to not only remain in the top ten for a thirteenth consecutive week, but to also raise its overall box office receipts to $696.2 million, as it gets ready to become only the third release to top $700 million domestically.

Finally, Magnolia’s RBG cracked the top ten this week as it expanded its release and brought in $1.2 million in its second week. Next week will see the release of Deadpool 2, which will surely jumble up the top ten a bit. A few other counter-programming films—Book Club and the animated Show Dogs—will attempt to provide audiences an alternative to the wise-cracking antihero as well as the other action-dominated fare currently monopolizing the Box Office.

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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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