For the second week in a row, Bullet Train held onto the number one spot of the box-office weekend, besting the second-place film by $6.2 million this weekend.
The Brad Pitt vehicle once again led the box-office weekend as Bullet Train brought in $13.4 million in its second weekend of release. This gives the action/comedy/thriller a total of $54.5 million. Again, this relegated DC League of Super-Pets to a second-place finish as the film brought in $7.2 million in its third weekend, lifting its total to $58.3 million. Meanwhile, Top Gun: Maverick managed to climb its way to third place after a sixth-place finish last weekend as it finished almost tied with the Super-Pets with $7.15 million. This gives the Tom Cruise vehicle a twelve-week total of $673.8 million, as well as the seventh highest lifetime gross, inching it closer to overtaking Avengers: Infinity War. Holding steady in fourth place was Thor: Love and Thunder with $5.31 million over the weekend. This gives the Marvel film a six-week total of $325.4 million. Closing out the top five was last weekend’s third-place film, Nope which finished just behind Thor: Love and Thunder with $5.30 million. This lifts the horror film’s four-week total to $107.5 million.
Minions: The Rise of Gru dropped out of the top five to finish in sixth place with $4.9 million over the weekend. The animated sequel now has a seven-week grand total of $343.7 million. Holding its ground in the seventh spot was Where the Crawdads Sing, which added $4.0 million over the weekend. The critical hit now sports a five-week total of $72.1 million. Debuting in the top ten in its second week of release was Bodies Bodies Bodies with $3.3 million. The comedy/horror/thriller now has a two-week total of $3.6 million. In its eighth week in release, the biopic Elvis held steady in the ninth spot with $2.6 million, raising its grand total to $141.3 million. Finally, the lone debut of the weekend to make the top ten, Fall finished in the tenth spot with $2.5 million in its first weekend in release.
Two films were thrust from the weekend box-office top ten over the last three days as Easter Sunday was dispatched after finishing in the eighth spot last weekend. The film now sports a two-week total of $10.0 million. Concurrently, last weekend’s final finisher, The Black Phone, departs the top ten after amassing an eight-week total of $87.7 million.
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.
