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Box-Office Weekend: “Barbie” Threepeats

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie held onto the top spot of the box-office weekend for the third straight week, this week besting the second-place film by $23 million.

In its third weekend of release, Barbie took in $53 million to bring its overall total to $459 million. This easily bested the debut of Meg 2: The Trench which landed in second place with $30 million over the weekend. Meanwhile, Oppenheimer finished in third place just behind that with $29 million, giving the film a three-week total of $229 million. The second premiere of the weekend, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem landed in fourth place where it made $28 million over the last three days and $43 million over the course of its opening week. Falling two spots to finish in fifth place was Haunted Mansion which added $9 million over the weekend to bring its two-week total to $42 million.

Landing in sixth place after claiming fourth last weekend, Sound of Freedom brought in $7 million, lifting its five-week total to $163 million. Meanwhile, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One dropped a couple spots to land in seventh place with $6.5 million. This brings the film’s four-week total to $151 million. Falling two spots to claim eighth-place was Talk to Me which added $6.3 million over the weekend to raise its two-week total to $22 million. Also dropping two spots was Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny which finished in ninth-place over the weekend with $1.5 million in its sixth weekend in release This gives the film an overall total of $171 million. Finally, Elemental also dropped a couple spots to land in tenth place where it brought in $1.2 million, bringing its eight-week total to $148 million.

As happened last week, both ninth- and tenth-place films were pushed out of the top ten over the weekend. After bringing in $80.6 million over the last five weeks, Insidious: The Red Door says goodbye to the top ten, as does Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse which leaves with a far more credible ten-week total of $380.1 million.

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

  1. Barbie…$53 Million
  2. Meg 2: The Trench…$30 Million
  3. Oppenheimer…$29 Million
  4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem…$28 Million
  5. Haunted Mansion…$9 Million
  6. Sound of Freedom…$7 Million
  7. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One…$6.5 Million
  8. Talk to Me…$6.3 Million
  9. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny…$1.5 Million
  10. Elemental…$1.2 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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