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Box-Office Weekend: Doctor Strange In Control

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Marvel Studios obliterated all others to take control of the box-office weekend as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness debuted in the top spot, besting the second-place film by an astonishing $175.2 million.

In its first weekend of release, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness brought in $185 million. This obliterated the grosses of pretty much every other film in the top ten over the weekend. Last week’s top film, The Bad Guys dropped to a very distant second place with $9.8 million, lifting its three-week total to $57.6 million. Meanwhile, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 took over third place with $6.2 million, giving it a five-week total of $169.9 million. Dropping to fourth place in its fourth week in release was Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore which added $4 million over the weekend to raise its total to $86 million. Holding its ground in fifth place was Everything Everywhere All at Once as it took in $3.3 million in its seventh weekend of release, raising its total to $41.6 million.

Dropping from fourth to sixth place was director Robert Eggers’ The Northman which earned $2.8 million in its third weekend of release, lifting its total to $28 million. Similarly falling one spot to land in seventh place was The Lost City as the Sandra Bullock vehicle took in $2.5 million in its seventh weekend, to raise its total gross to $94.4 million. In its third weekend of release, the Nicolas Cage film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent made $1.5 million and finished in the eighth spot of the top ten. This gives the film a total of $16.4 million. Last weekend’s eighth-place finisher, the Liam Neeson vehicle Memory finish in ninth place with $1.2 million to give it a two-week total of $5.5 million. Finally, Father Stu fell to the tenth spot with $800,000 over the weekend. This gives the film a four-week total of $19.2 million.

For the second week in a row, only one film was ousted from the box-office weekend top ten. This weekend, Morbius dropped from the list after amassing merely $71.9 million in its first six weeks of release.

Weekend Box Office (May 6th – May 8th)

  1. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness…$185 Million
  2. The Bad Guys…$9.8 Million
  3. Sonic the Hedgehog 2…$6.2 Million
  4. Fantastic Beats: The Secrets of Dumbledore…$4.0 Million
  5. Everything Everywhere All at Once…$3.3 Million
  6. The Northman…$2.8 Million
  7. The Lost City…$2.5 Million
  8. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent…$1.5 Million
  9. Memory…$1.2 Million
  10. Father Stu…$800,000

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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