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Box-Office Weekend: “Blue Beetle” Bests “Barbie”

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

After four consecutive weekends, a new film sits atop of the box-office weekend top ten as Blue Beetle debuted $3 million ahead of previous champion Barbie.

In its first weekend of release, Blue Beetle claimed the top spot of the top ten this box-office weekend with a total of $25 million. This was enough to push Barbie to second place after four weeks atop the top ten. Despite losing the top spot this weekend to Blue Beetle, Barbie still took in $22 million and brought it’s five-week total to $567 million. This puts it just $6.98 million behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie to take over as the highest domestic grossing film of the year. Dropping a spot to finish in third, Oppenheimer made $11 million over the weekend to raise its five-week total to $285 million. Meanwhile, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem fell to fourth place with $8.4 million in its third week of release. This gives the film an overall total of $88 million. The second debut of the weekend, Strays, claimed fifth place by bringing in $8.3 million over the weekend.

Falling two spots to finish in sixth place over the weekend, Meg 2: The Trench added $6.7 million to its coffers to bring the film’s three-week total to $67 million. Holding firm in seventh place with $3.2 million over the weekend, Talk to Me raised its four-week total to $37 million. Last weekend’s sixth-place film, Haunted Mansion dropped two spots to finish in eighth this weekend with $3 million. This gives the film a four-week total of $59 million. Also standing firm in its previous position was Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which brought in $2.7 million to lay claim to ninth place over the weekend. The film now has a six-week tally of $165 million. Finally, after debuting in fifth place last weekend, The Last Voyage of the Demeter dropped all the way to tenth this weekend with $2.5 million, giving the film an overall total of $11 million.

Two films were pushed from the box-office weekend top ten over the last three days. After bringing in $177.6 million over the last seven weeks, Sound of Freedom failed to crack the top ten following an eighth-place finish last weekend. With an eight-week tally of $173.6 million, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny isn’t exactly a failure, but it did also fall out of the top ten this weekend.

Weekend Box Office (August 18th – August 20th)

  1. Blue Beetle…$25 Million
  2. Barbie…$22 Million
  3. Oppenheimer…$11 Million
  4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem…$8.4 Million
  5. Strays…$8.3 Million
  6. Meg 2: The Trench…$6.7 Million
  7. Talk to Me…$3.2 Million
  8. Haunted Mansion…$3 Million
  9. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One…$2.7 Million
  10. The Last Voyage of the Demeter…$2.5 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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