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Box-Office Weekend: Black Panther Overthrown

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

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)

  1. Pacific Rim: Uprising …$28 Million
  2. Black Panther…$16.7 Million
  3. I Can Only Imagine…$13.8 Million
  4. Sherlock Gnomes…$10.6 Million
  5. Tomb Raider…$10.4 Million
  6. A Wrinkle in Time…$8 Million
  7. Love, Simon…$7.8 Million
  8. Paul, Apostle of Christ…$5 Million
  9. Game Night…$4.2 Million
  10. Midnight Sun…$4.1 Million

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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