Box-Office Weekend: Demon Slayer Assumes the Throne

Yet again, a new release has claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten as Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle bested last week’s top film by a margin of $43.9 million.

Sony Pictures Releasing saw Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle open this weekend in first place with $70 million over the last three days. This easily bested last week’s top film, The Conjuring: Last Rites which finished in second place with $26.1 million. Still, the Warner Bros. product claims a two-week total of $131.1 million, so all is not lost. Meanwhile, Focus Features enjoyed a third-place debut for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale as the film pulled in $18.1 million over the course of its opening weekend. Lionsgate saw its release of The Long Walk open in fourth place with $11.5 million. In fifth place, the re-release of Toy Story took in $3.5 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Falling three spots to land in sixth place this weekend, Weapons took in $2.7 million for Warner Bros. to bring its six-week total to $147.5 million. After claiming second place last weekend, the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures re-release of Hamilton dropped to seventh place this weekend where it made $2.2 million for the studio to bring its cumulative total to $15.1 million. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures also saw Freakier Friday drop four spots to land in eighth place this weekend where it brought in $2.1 million for the studio to bring the film’s six-week total to $91.1 million. Meanwhile, Bleecker Street Media enjoyed a $1.7 million debut for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues as the film managed to claim ninth place over the weekend. The final spot of the top ten was claimed by the Fathom Events sixtieth anniversary re-release of The Sound of Music which took in $1.7 million over the weekend.

For the first time in a long while, over half of the box-office weekend top from the previous weekend failed to make the top ten the following week as the six films that finished in fifth- through sixth-place a week ago, all dropped from this weekend’s list. Ater three weeks in release, Caught Stealing has succeeded in bringing in $17.7 million for Sony Pictures Releasing, despite falling from the top ten this weekend after last week’s fifth-place finish. Similarly, with a three-week tally of $14.4 million, the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release of The Roses also failed to repeat its appearance in the top ten this weekend. That same studio saw The Fantastic Four: First Steps fall out of the top ten after amassing an eight-week total of $272.5 million. The Universal Pictures release The Bad Guys 2 also departed the top ten after bringing in a total of $79.4 million over the last seven weeks. After just two weeks in release, Light of the World dropped from the top ten with an overall total of $4.0 million. Finally, the Warner Bros. product Superman managed to bring in a total of $353.9 million for the studio over the last ten weeks before falling from the top ten.

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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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