Box-Office Weekend: Black Panther Overthrown
After five weeks atop the box-office weekend results, Disney and Marvel’s Black Panther fell to the second spot in the weekend’s top ten. It was overcome by the arrival of Pacific Rim: Uprising which won the weekend earning $28 million.
Despite falling to second place, Black Panther still brought in $16.1 million to raise its domestic six-week total over $630 million. This makes the film the highest grossing comic book adaptation of all time. Impressively, around the globe, the film has amassed over $1.2 billion.
Third place again belonged to I Can Only Imagine, which brought in $13.8 million to raise its domestic total to $38.3 million. Elsewhere, the animated film Sherlock Gnomes made its domestic debut this weekend to the tune of $10.6 million. Tomb Raider, meanwhile, suffered a sharp drop of 56%, taking in just $10.4 million after banking $23.5 million during its opening weekend. Meanwhile, A Wrinkle in Time added $8 million to lift its three-week total to $73.9 million.
Love, Simon suffered a similar drop in its second week to those films, earning just $7.8 million capping its two-week total around $23.7 million. Meanwhile, the faith-based film Paul, Apostle of Christ drew favorable pre-Easter business in the amount of $5 million to put it solidly in the eighth spot on our list. Game Night fell from sixth place last week to ninth this weekend, earning $4.2 million, to give it a five-week total of $60.8 million.
Finally, Midnight Sun, the fourth film to debut in the top ten this weekend (along with Pacific Rim: Uprising; Sherlock Gnomes; and Paul, Apostle of Christ) took in $4.1 million over the past three days to finish in the tenth, and final spot of the box-office weekend. Next weekend should see another seismic box-office shakeup as Steven Spielberg’s science-fiction action adventure Ready Player One arrives.
Weekend Box Office (March 23rd – March 25th)
- Pacific Rim: Uprising …$28 Million
- Black Panther…$16.7 Million
- I Can Only Imagine…$13.8 Million
- Sherlock Gnomes…$10.6 Million
- Tomb Raider…$10.4 Million
- A Wrinkle in Time…$8 Million
- Love, Simon…$7.8 Million
- Paul, Apostle of Christ…$5 Million
- Game Night…$4.2 Million
- Midnight Sun…$4.1 Million
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