Box-Office Weekend: Bad Boys for Life Repeats

Last weekend’s top film, Bad Boys for Life, did well enough to finish for the second straight week atop the box-office weekend. The film added $34.0 million over the weekend, easily besting second-place finisher 1917 by $18.2 million, and raising its two-week total to $120.6 million.

Meanwhile, 1917 crept into second place earning $15.8 million over the weekend. The film has now earned $103.9 million over its first five weeks in release. Dolittle, however, fell a spot, finishing in third over the weekend with $12.5 million. The comedy now sports a two-week total of $44.7 million.

This week’s first debut, the Guy Ritchie-directed The Gentlemen, took in $11.0 million over the weekend, finishing solidly in fourth place. Jumanji: The Next Level, however, dropped a spot, finishing in fifth place with $7.9 million. The film has now taken in $283.4 million over its first seven weeks in release.

The weekend’s other debut, The Turning, finished the weekend in sixth place with $7.3 million. Dropping one spot, to seventh place, was Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker which added another $5.2 million to give the film a six-week domestic total of $501.6 million.

Finishing in eighth place was the Greta Gerwig-directed adaptation of Little Women, which added $4.7 million over the weekend to give the film a five-week total of $93.7 million. Dropping three spots to finish in ninth place was the death-row drama Just Mercy, which took in $4.1 million and finished its fifth week in released with a $27.1 million cumulative total. Finally, Knives Out dropped two spots to finish in the final position of the weekend box-office with $3.7 million. The film now has a nine-week domestic tally of $151.9 million.

The comedy Like a Boss dropped from the top ten, earning just $1.5 million in only its third weekend of release. Sporting a total of $20.5 million the film looks poised to stay away from the top ten for good. Frozen II, however, bounced back over the weekend, earning $2.5 million. Despite not making the top ten, the film has made $469.8 million over the course of its ten weeks in release.

Blake Lively likely returns to the top ten next week when the action-thriller The Rhythm Section debuts. Horror fans may also give the new film Gretel & Hansel a push to make an appearance in the box-office weekend as well.