Box-Office Weekend: “Black Adam” Reigns

A new film sits atop the box-office weekend after Black Adam debuted with an impressive $50.7 million more than second-place finisher Ticket to Paradise.

The latest addition to the DC Extended Universe, Black Adam brought in $67.0 million in its first weekend of release. This was easily enough to best the film in second place, Ticket to Paradise, which brought in $16.3 million during its opening weekend. Although it was pushed from second-place, Smile still added $8.4 million over the weekend to claim third place and a four-week total of $84.3 million. Meanwhile, last weekend’s top film, Halloween Ends dropped to fourth place with $8.0 million to show for the weekend. The film now claims a two-week total of $54.2 million. Last weekend’s third-place film, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, fell to fifth place with $4.2 million earned over the last three days. This gives the film a three-week total of $28.7 million.

Falling from fourth- to sixth-place was The Woman King, which added $1.9 million to lift its six-week total to $62.9 million. Just behind that was the horror film, Terrifier 2 which climbed two spots to finish in seventh place just behind The Woman King with $1.89 million. This lifts the film’s three-week total to $5.3 million. Falling from sixth to eighth this weekend was Don’t Worry Darling with $880,000 over the last three days. This gives the film a five-week total of $44.3 million. The weekend’s biggest fall belongs to Amsterdam however, which plummeted from fifth to a ninth-place finish this weekend with $818,000, bringing its three-week total to $13.9 million. Finally, making its debut in the top ten in its third week of release was Triangle of Sadness with $600,000 over the last three days and an overall total of $1.4 million.

Three films were pushed from the box-office weekend as Barbarian exists with a seven-week total of $40.1 million after finishing in seventh place last weekend. Similarly, Bros fell from the eighth spot last weekend with a four-week total of $11.5 million. And, finally, the behemoth of Top Gun: Maverick finally dropped from the top ten after bringing it’s twenty-two week total to $716.3 million, allowing it to remain entrenched in fifth place on the list of highest domestic grosses of all time.

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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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