Box-Office Weekend: Dinosaurs Rule the Theaters

It took a team of dinosaurs to dislodge Tom Cruise from the top of the box-office weekend, but Jurassic World Dominion did just that, beating Top Gun: Maverick by $93.4 million.

The latest film in the “Jurassic” series, Jurassic World Dominion brought in $143.4 million over its first weekend in release. Meanwhile, the Tom Cruise-led Top Gun: Maverick added $50.0 million to lift its three-week total to $393.3 million and a solid finish in second place. The Marvel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness finished in the third spot with $4.9 million to show over the weekend. This gives the film a domestic total of $397.8 million, just ahead of Top Gun: Maverick‘s three-week total. The Bob’s Burgers Movie dropped to fourth place with $2.3 million in its third weekend of release. The film now has a total of $27,1 million. Last weekend’s fourth-place film, The Bad Guys landed in fifth place with $2.2 million in its eighth weekend in release. The film now boasts a total of $91.5 million.

Downton Abbey: A New Era similarly fell a spot to sixth with $1.7 million. That film now has a four-week total of $40.0 million. Also slipping a spot was Everything Everywhere All at Once which finished in seventh place with $1.3 million over the weekend. This raised the film’s twelve-week total to $63.0 million. Climbing back into the top ten after a brief absence was the remake of Firestarter with landed in eighth place with $820,000. This now gives the horror film a five-week total of $9.3 million. Falling one spot to finish in the penultimate spot this weekend was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 which added $710,000 to raise its ten-week tally to $189.8 million. Finally, the comedy Ante Sundharaniki brought in $620,000 in its first weekend of release to land firmly in the tenth spot of this weekend’s top ten.

Three films fell from the box-office weekend top ten this week. The surprise debut in seventh-place last weekend, Vikram was nowhere to be seen this weekend. While Sandra Bullock and The Lost City departed the top ten after amassing $104.9 million over the last twelve weeks. Lastly, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future leaves the top ten in its second week of release with a $2.0 million total over that span.

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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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