Box-Office Weekend: Death on the Nile Lands on Top

For the second consecutive week, three new films debuted in the top ten of the box-office weekend as Death on the Nile claimed a first-place finish by $4.7 million ahead of last week’s top film Jackass Forever.

Sporting a solid debut of $12.8 million, Death on the Nile led the weekend during its first week in release. Meanwhile, last week’s top film, Jackass Forever, fell to second place with $8.1 million over the weekend. The latest film in the “Jackass” series no has a two-week total of $37.4 million. The second debut of the weekend was the romantic comedy Marry Me which finished just behind Jackass Forever with $8.0 million to show for its opening weekend. The juggernaut that is Spider-Man: No Way Home fell to fourth place this weekend, but still managed to add $7.2 million to lift its nine-week total to $758.0 million as it inches closer to passing Avatar to become the third highest grossing domestic film of all time. The third debut of the weekend, Blacklight finished in fifth place with $3.6 million.

Meanwhile, last week’s fifth place film, Sing 2, fell one spot to sixth with $3.0 million to show for the weekend. This gives the animated film an eight-week tally of $143.4 million. After finishing in second place last weekend, Moonfall plummeted to seventh over the weekend taking in only $2.9 million. This gives the film a two-week total of $15.2 million. The horror film Scream similarly dropped to eighth place after finishing in fourth last weekend. The film made $2.8 million in its fifth week of release to lift its total to $73.2 million. Creeping back into the top ten was Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza which landed in ninth place with $923,000 over the weekend. This gives the film a twelve-week total of $14 million. Finally, last week’s sixth-place finisher, The King’s Man fell to tenth place with $433,000 for the weekend, giving the film an eight-week tally of $36.7 million.

Four films were forced from the box-office weekend top ten over the past three days. The films that finished in seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth last weekend were all ushered out. Redeeming Love leaves after earning $8.8 million over four weeks. Meanwhile, American Underdog departs the top ten after an eight-week run that amassed $26.3 million. The action/adventure film The 355 was ushered from the top ten after earning $14.5 million in its first six weeks of release. Finally, the family-friendly French/Canadian The Wolf and the Lion (Le loup et le lion), leaves the top ten with a total of $1 million to show for its two weeks in release.

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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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