Box-Office Weekend: “Despicable Me 4” On Top

A new film stand on top of the box-office weekend as Despicable Me 4 debuted this weekend, besting last weekend’s top film by $45 million.

Over the course of its first weekend in release, Despicable Me 4 brought in $75.0 million for Universal Pictures, as well as an overall total of $122.6 million which includes extended days in release. Meanwhile, Inside Out 2 was relegated to second place where it made $30.0 million this weekend, bring its four-week total to $533.8 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. A Quiet Place: Day One dropped to third place with $21.0 million in its second weekend of release, giving the Paramount Pictures product a cumulative total of $94.4 million. Debuting in fourth place with $6.7 million was A24’s MaXXXine. Falling a spot to land in fifth place this weekend, Bad Boys: Ride of Die brought in $6.6 million for Sony Pictures Releasing over the weekend, lifting the film’s five-week total to $177.4 million for the studio.

After debuting in third place last weekend, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 dropped three spots to claim sixth place this weekend with $5.5 million, giving the film a two-week total of $22.2 million for Warner Brothers. Angel Studios enjoyed the appearance of Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot in seventh place with $3.2 million in its first weekend of release, while sporting an overall total of $6.8 million for the studio. Falling three spots, Kalki 2898 AD brought in $1.8 million to land in eight place this weekend, bringing the film’s two-week total to $7.3 million. Also dropping three spots was last weekend’s sixth-place film, The Bikeriders, which took in $1.3 million to raise its three-week total to $19.3 million for Focus Features. Finally, despite only bringing in $860,000, the Searchlight Pictures product, Kinds of Kindness managed to stay put in tenth place, delivering Searchlight Pictures a three-week total of $3.8 million.

The three new films cracking the top ten this weekend pushed out last weekend’s seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-place films. After bringing in $91.1 million for Sony Pictures Releasing during the last seven weeks,
The Garfield Movie was unable to keep the lasagna plentiful and failed to crack the hold onto a spot in the top ten. Similarly, after nine weeks in release, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes departs the top ten leaving 20th Century Studios $169.6 million richer. Finally, after debuting in ninth place last weekend, Jatt & Juliet 3 only squeaked out a total of $1.52 million during its brief time 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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