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Box-Office Weekend: Bob Marley Claims Crown

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

A new film has taken control of the box-office weekend top ten as Bob Marley: One Love managed to edge out Madame Web by $4.3 million over the last three days to claim first place.

In its inaugural weekend in release, the biopic Bob Marley: One Love took in $27.7 million for Paramount Pictures, giving the film a first-week total of $45.6 million. Second place was claimed by Madame Web which made Columbia Pictures $15.2 million over the weekend and an opening week total of $23.4 million. Meanwhile, last weekend’s top film, Argylle dropped to third place where it added $4.7 million, bringing the Universal Pictures International product’s three-week total to $36.5 million. Climbing two spots to finish in fourth this weekend was Universal Pictures’ Migration which took in $3.8 million, raising its nine-week total to $114.8 million for the studio. The second Fathom Events release of The Chosen (this week being episodes four through six from season four), landed in fifth place where it brought in $3.44 million over the weekend, and $4.2 million overall.

Falling a spot to sixth place over the weekend, Wonka added $3.40 million for Warner Bros., giving the film a ten-week total of $209.8 million. Dropping four spots to land in seventh place this weekend was The Beekeeper with $3.3 million. This brings the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer product a six-week total of $59.9 million. Losing one spot this weekend was Anyone But You, which took eighth place with $2.4 million, bringing its nine-week total to $84.7 million for Columbia Pictures. Plummeting seven spots this weekend to finish in ninth place, was Lisa Frankenstein with $2.0 million. This gives the Focus Features product a two-week total of $7.7 million. Finally, Land of Bad from Avenue Entertainment made its debut in the weekend box office in tenth place with $1.8 million in its first weekend of release.

Three films were knocked out of the box-office weekend top ten as last weekend’s eighth- through tenth-place finishers were all pushed out. After six weeks, Mean Girls has made $71.0 million for Paramount Pictures, but failed to make the top ten this weekend. Meanwhile, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s American Fiction fell from the top ten this weekend after amassing $18.9 million for the studio after ten weeks in release. Finally, after eleven weeks, Searchlight Pictures must certainly have enjoyed the $31.8 million that Poor Things has made, despite the film’s falling out of the top ten this weekend.

Weekend Box Office (February 16th – February 18th)

    1. Bob Marley: One Love…$27.7 Million
    2. Madame Web…$15.2 Million
    3. Argylle…$4.7 Million
    4. Migration…$3.8 Million
    5. The Chosen: Season 4, Episodes 4-6…$3.44 Million
    6. Wonka…$3.40 Million
    7. The Beekeeper…$3.3 Million
    8. Anyone But You…$2.4 Million
    9. Lisa Frankenstein…$2.0 Million
    10. Land of Bad…$1.8 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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