Box-Office Weekend: Beyoncé Takes Over

After two weeks on top of the box-office weekend, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes succumbed to newcomer Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé by $6.5 million to cede the number one spot this weekend.

With $21.0 million to show for its opening weekend, the concert film Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé took control of the weekend box office top ten. In second place, with $14.5 million, was The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Despite falling from the top spot this weekend, the film still sports a three-week total of $121.2 million. The second debut of the weekend, Godzilla Minus One landed in third place with $11.0 million to show for its opening weekend. Holding steady in fourth place was Trolls Band Together with $7.6 million. The Universal Pictures product now sports a three-week total of $74.8 million. Meanwhile, last weekend’s third-place film, Wish dropped to fifth place this weekend where it added $7.4 million to bring its two-week tally to $42.0 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

After debuting in second place last weekend, Napoleon dropped to sixth this weekend where it added $7.1 million for Columbia Pictures, bringing its two-week total to $45.7 million. The third film to debut in the top ten this weekend, Animal, claimed seventh place with $6.1 million over the course of its opening weekend. Angel Studios enjoyed the spoils of the fourth film to debut in the top ten as The Shift took eighth place with $4.4 million. The fifth, and final, debut of the weekend, Silent Night claimed ninth place with $3.0 million earned for Lionsgate Films over the weekend. After a fifth-place finish last weekend, Thanksgiving plummeted to the final spot of the top ten this weekend with $2.6 million. This gives the TriStar Pictures product a three-week total of $28.4 million.

This weekend, half of the top ten from last week were ousted from this weekend’s list as the sixth- through tenth-place films were all displaced. After four weeks in release, The Marvels leaves the top ten after bringing in a total of $80.7 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. With a six-week total of $15.1 million, Focus Features has a reason to be proud of the critical/commercial showing displayed by The Holdovers. Top ten mainstay Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour finally departs the list after amassing $178.8 million over the last eight weeks. Paramount Pictures has certainly enjoyed the $136.9 million that Five Nights at Freddy’s made them during the past six weeks. Finally, Saltburn leaves the top ten after bringing in $6.2 million for Warner Bros. over the last three weeks.

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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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