Box-Office Weekend: DISCLOSURE DAY Rules Weekend

Box Office Weekend

As it getting to be the norm, a new release claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend, as Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day debuted $25 million ahead of the film that finished in second place – Obsession.

“Disclosure Day” posterUniversal Pictures enjoyed a $44.0 million debut for Disclosure Day, as the film handily controlled the box-office weekend top ten. It finished well ahead of Obsession which climbed from fourth place last weekend to claim second place this week with $19.0 million – giving the film a five-week total of $188.4 million for Focus Features. Meanwhile, Paramount Pictures saw its Scary Movie drop from the top spot to third place where it took in $14.6 million, giving the film a two-week tally of $84.6 million. This pushed A24’s Backrooms from third to fourth place this weekend as it added $11.3 million to raise its three-week total to $160.0 million. Dropping three spots from last weekend, Masters of the Universe brought in $8.7 million for Amazon MGM Studios and claimed fifth place as it lifted its two-week total to $46.7 million.

Meanwhile, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu held its ground in sixth place as it brought in $4.7 million over the weekend, giving the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release a four-week total of $165.1 million. Lionsgate’s Michael also retained its standing from last weekend as it remained in seventh place with $4.1 million earned over the weekend. This brings the film’s eight-week total to $362.8 million. Lionsgate also claimed eighth place with the $2.8 million debut of The Furious. Just behind that saw the debut of Stop! That! Train! in the ninth spot with $2.0 million. Finally, after an eighth-place finish last week, The Breadwinner claimed tenth place this weekend with $1.5 million, bringing the Sony Pictures Releasing product’s three-week total to $17.5 million.

Three films again dropped from the top ten this weekend. However, it was the fifth-, ninth-, and tenth-place films that fell rather than the bottom three as happened over the course of the last two weekends. Following its fifth-place finish last weekend, The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act managed to bring in a total of $20.3 million during the course of its week in release. With a three-week total of $14.0 million, the Focus Features release, Pressure, couldn’t carry the momentum into this weekend and instead fell out of the top ten this week. Sporting a seven-week total of $217.8 million, the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product, The Devil Wears Prada 2 managed to bring its overall total to $217.8 million before dropping from the top ten this weekend.

Weekend Box Office
(June 12th – June 14th)

    1. Disclosure Day…$44.0 Million
    2. Obsession…$19.0 Million
    3. Scary Movie…$14.6 Million
    4. Backrooms…$11.3 Million
    5. Masters of the Universe…$8.7 Million
    6. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu…$4.7 Million
    7. Michael…$4.1 Million
    8. The Furious…$2.8 Million
    9. Stop! That! Train!…$2.0 Million
    10. The Breadwinner…1.5 Million
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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