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Box-Office Weekend: Candyman Debuts On Top

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

The reimagined version of Candyman hit theaters this weekend and easily took the top spot of the box-office weekend as it brought in $22.37 million for Universal Pictures.

Falling to second place was Free Guy, which finished with $13.56 million in its third week of release, bringing its total to $79.31 million. Also falling one spot this week was last week’s second-place finisher PAW Patrol: The Movie, which made around $6.62 million its second week of release, giving the family film a total of $24.08 million. Disney’s Jungle Cruise similarly dropped a spot to fourth, but still added $5.02 million to its total to give it over $100.11 million in its first five weeks of release. The horror film Don’t Breathe 2 dropped a spot in its third week of release to finish in fifth place with $2.84 million, giving it a total grodd of $24.58 million.

Just behind Don’t Breathe 2, with $2.17 million was Respect, in the sixth spot, in its third week of release. Dropping from sixth to seventh in only its fourth week of release was the Warner Bros. super-hero offering The Suicide Squad. The film took in $2.04 million over the weekend to lift its grand total to a disappointing $52.78 million. The film deserves far better treatment than it has received. Sliding a spot in its second week of release was The Protege, which finished with $1.65 million over the weekend to lift its total take to $5.72 million. The Night House finished in ninth place with $1.22 million in its second week, and a grand total of $5.18 million.

Finally, creeping back into the top ten was Black Widow, with $855,000 over the weekend. This gives the latest Marvel film a total of $181.53 million over an eight-week period.

Weekend Box Office (August 27th – August 29th)

  1. Candyman…$22.37 Million
  2. Free Guy…$13.56 Million
  3. PAW Patrol: The Movie…$6.63 Million
  4. Jungle Cruise…$5.02 Million
  5. Don’t Breathe 2…$2.84 Million
  6. Respect…$2.17 Million
  7. The Suicide Squad…$2.04 Million
  8. The Protege…$1.65 Million
  9. The Night House…$1.22 Million
  10. Black Widow…$855,000

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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