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Box-Office Weekend: Black Panther Still King

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For five weeks in a row, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has managed to maintain its hold on the top spot of the box-office weekend.

Leading the pack again this weekend, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever held first place by a margin of $2.4 million while earning $11.1 million in its fifth weekend of release. The film now has an overall total of $409.8 million. Also standing pat in its spot from last weekend was Violent Night which brought in $8.7 million in its second week of release to brings its total to $26.7 million. The animated film Strange World also stood its ground to remain in third place with $3.6 million over the weekend, raising its three-week tally to $30.5 million. Ensconced in fourth place again this week was the horror film The Menu which added $2.7 million this weekend to lift its four-week total to $29.0 million. Fifth place again belonged to Devotion as the film made $2.8 million over the weekend to brings its three-week take to $17.0 million.

The first shake-up from last weekend came as Black Adam lept a couple spots to land in sixth place this week with $1.7 million over the weekend. This brings the film’s eight-week total to $166.9 million. Similarly, The Fabelmans climbed a spot to finish in seventh this weekend with $1.2 million. The Steven Spielberg film now has a five-week total of $7.3 million. Last weekend’s sixth-place film, I Heard the Bells, brought in $751,000 over the weekend which dropped it to eighth place this weekend. This film now lays claim to a two-week total of $4.1 million. Making its debut in the top ten this weekend, in its second week of release, was Spoiler Alert which brought in $700,000 over the last three days, bringing its overall two-week total to $803,000. Finally, George Clooney and Julia Roberts managed to retain the final spot of the top ten with Ticket to Paradise which brought in $600,000 in its eighth weekend of release, lifting its cumulative total to $67.5 million.

Bones and All was the lone film forced out of the top ten this weekend. The film finished in ninth place last week, but couldn’t hold a spot after making just $7.3 million over its first four weeks in release.

Weekend Box Office (December 9th – December 11th)

  1. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever…$11.1 Million
  2. Violent Night…$8.7 Million
  3. Strange World…$3.6 Million
  4. The Menu…$2.7 Million
  5. Devotion…$2.0 Million
  6. Black Adam…$1.3 Million
  7. The Fabelmans…$1.2 Million
  8. I Heard the Bells…$751,000
  9. Spoiler Alert…$700,000
  10. Ticket to Paradise…$600,000

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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