Box-Office Weekend: Beekeeper Takes Crown

This box-office weekend saw a swap of last weekend’s top two films as The Beekeeper got the best of Mean Girls by a mere $0.1 million to finish on top of the weekend box office top ten.

In its third weekend of release, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s The Beekeeper reclaimed the top spot of the box-office weekend earning $7.4 million. This gives the film a three-week total of $42.3 million. Meanwhile, Mean Girls was relegated to a second-place finish where it added $7.3 million to bring its three-week tally to $60.8 million for Paramount Pictures. Holding steady in third place with $5.9 million was Wonka which, in its seventh week of release has succeeded in making Warner Bros. $195.2 million. Meanwhile, Migration climbed a spot to finish in fourth place with $5.2 million in its sixth week in release, lifting its overall total to $101.3 for Universal Pictures. This pushed Anyone But You down from fourth to fifth this weekend where it added $4.8 million in its sixth week of release, giving the Columbia Pictures product an overall total of $71.2 million.

Skyrocketing four spots to land in sixth place this weekend with $3.0 million was Poor Things which, in its eighth week in release has brought in a total of $24.8 million for Searchlight Pictures. After missing the top ten last weekend, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s American Fiction landed in seventh place this weekend where it brought in $2.9 million, raising its seven-week total to $11.8 million. Falling two spots to land in eighth this weekend was Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom where it made $2.8 million. This gives the Warner Bros. product a six-week total of $118.1 million. In its ninth week of release, Godzilla Minus One managed to crack the top ten, finishing in ninth place with $2.6 million. This gives the film an overall total of $55.0 million. Lastly, The Boys in the Boat fell a spot to land in the tenth spot this weekend where it added $2.2 million, giving the film a five-week total of $47.5 million.

As happened last weekend, two films were again pushed out of the top ten as both I.S.S. and Night Swim failed to crack the weekend box-office. After two weeks in release, the Bleecker Street Media product – I.S.S. – couldn’t hold onto a spot in the top ten for a second consecutive weekend, but did manage to pull in $5.6 million overall. Finally, last weekend’s eighth-place film, Night Swim leaves the top ten after four weeks earning a total of $26.8 million for Universal Pictures International.

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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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