Box-Office Weekend: Despicable Me 4 Stays #1

For a second weekend, Despicable Me 4 held the top spot of the box-office weekend, holding on the last three days by an impressive $22.0 million margin.

In its second weekend of release, the Universal Pictures product Despicable Me 4 took in $44.6 million to bring its overall total to $211.1 million while retaining a firm hold on the box-office top ten. This easily topped newcomer Longlegs which debuted in second place over the weekend with $22.6 million. Meanwhile, Inside Out 2 fell to third place where it added $20.7 million this weekend, giving the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures offering a five-week tally of $572.6 million. Similarly dropping a spot was Paramount Pictures’ A Quiet Place: Day One which landed in fourth place with $11.8 million over the weekend. This gives the film a three-week total of $116.2 million. Debuting in fifth place was Columbia Pictures’ Fly Me to the Moon with $10.0 million in its first weekend of release.

Falling a spot to finish in sixth-place this weekend, Bad Boys: Ride or Die brought in $4.4 million to bring its six-week total to $184.9 million for Sony Pictures Releasing. This pushed Horizon: An American Sage – Chapter 1 to seventh place in its third week of release where it added $2.4 million to raise its overall total to $27.0 million for Warner Brothers. After claiming fourth place last weekend, MaXXXine dropped four spots enroute to an eighth-place finish this weekend where it brough in $2.1 million for A24, raining its two-week total to $11.8 million. Meanwhile, Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot lost two spots as it finished in ninth place this weekend with $1.3 million, bringing its two-week tally to $9.8 million for Angel Studios. Finally, the re-release of The Lion King by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures managed to take in $1.1 million over the weekend.

The bottom three films from last weekend all fell off of this weekend’s top ten as newcomers took their places. After landing in eight-place last weekend and bringing in a two-week total of $7.3 million, Kalki 2898 AD couldn’t maintain its position in the top ten this weekend. Despite bringing in $20.3 million for Focus Features over the last four weeks, The Bikeriders failed to crack the top ten again this weekend. The same fate befell Searchlight Pictures’ Kinds of Kindness which was forced from the top ten after amassing $4.7 million for the studio over the last four weeks.

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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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