Box-Office Weekend: Beasts Best Sonic

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was sent packing to second-place over the box-office weekend by Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore which bested last week’s number one film by $13 million.

In its first week of release, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore brought in $43 million and debuted in the top spot over the weekend. Meanwhile, last week’s top film, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, was pushed to second place and managed to bring in $30 million. This gives the film a two-week total of $119.6 million. Holding steady in the third spot of the top ten was The Lost City which added $6.5 million over the weekend to raise its three-week tally to $78.6 million. Leapfrogging two spots to finish in fourth place this weekend was Everything Everywhere All at Once which brought in $6.2 million over the weekend, raising its four-week total to $17.7 million in the process. Debuting in fifth place over the weekend was Father Stu starring Mark Wahlberg. The film took in $5.7 million in its first weekend of release amidst middling reviews.

Dropping all the way to sixth place this weekend was last week’s number two film, Morbius. The film managed $4.7 million for its third weekend in release and now sports a total of $65.1 million. Similarly dropping a few spots over the weekend was Ambulance which fell from fourth to seventh with $4 million to show for its troubles. The film now claims a four-week total of $15.6 million. Meanwhile, The Batman dropped three spots to finish in eighth place with $3.8 million over the weekend. This gives the film a seven-week total of $365 million, as it moves to #51 on the list of top domestic grosses of all time. Debuting in the top ten at number nine was K.G.F.: Chapter 2 which pulled in $2.9 million in its first weekend of release. Finally, last week’s seventh-place finisher, Uncharted fell to the tenth spot, adding $1.2 million over the weekend. This gives the film a nine-week total of $145 million.

Over the last three days, three films were ousted from the box-office weekend top ten. Spider-Man: No Way Home departs after a lengthy stay in the top ten with a grand total of $804.2 million, landing it at number three in the list of top domestic grosses of all time. Meanwhile, last week’s ninth-place film, Selena was displaced from the top ten as was tenth-place finisher Sing 2 (which still boasts a total of $162.5 million).

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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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