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Box-Office Weekend: Doctor Strange Stands Firm

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the third week in a row, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness remained on top of the box-office weekend, this week finishing $15.6 million ahead of the second-place film.

The good doctor, as in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, added $31.6 to its tally over the weekend to raise its three-week total to $342.1 million. The second-place film, Downton Abbey: A New Era debuted with a $16 million opening weekend. That pushed The Bad Guys to third place as it garnered $6.1 million in its fifth week in release. This gives the film a total of $74.4 million. Meanwhile, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 also dropped a spot, finishing in fourth place with $3.9 over the weekend. The sequel now sports a seven-week tally of $181 million. The second new film in this weekend’s top ten, Men, debuted in the fifth spot with $3.3 million.

Dropping a spot to finish in sixth place this weekend was Everything Everywhere All at Once which added $3.1 million in its ninth weekend of release to raise its total to $52.3 million. Similarly, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore fell a spot to finish in seventh place over the weekend with $1.9 million. This gives the film a six-week total of $93.1 million. Last weekend’s fourth-place finisher, Firestarter, suffered the biggest drop of the films remaining in the top ten as it only brought in $1.9 million, raising its two-week total to $7 million, and finishing in eighth place. Sandra Bullock and The Lost City finished in ninth place this weekend after claiming seventh place a week ago. The film added $1.5 million over the weekend to raise its nine-week total to $99.3 million. Finally, last weekend’s eighth-place finisher, The Northman, held on to finish in the tenth spot this weekend with $1 million. The film now has a five-week total of $33 million.

Again, two films were pushed from the box-office weekend top ten. Last weekend’s ninth-place film, Family Camp leaves in its second week of release with $2.7 million to show for its time in the spotlight. Meanwhile, Nicolas Cage and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent also fell from the top ten sporting a five-week total of $19.5 million.

Weekend Box Office (May 20th – May 22nd)

  1. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness…$31.6 Million
  2. Downton Abbey: A New Era…$16.0 Million
  3. The Bad Guys…$6.1 Million
  4. Sonic the Hedgehog 2…$3.9 Million
  5. Men…$3.3 Million
  6. Everything Everywhere All at Once…$3.1 Million
  7. Fantastic Beats: The Secrets of Dumbledore…$1.9 Million
  8. Firestarter…$1.9 Million
  9. The Lost City…$1.5 Million
  10. The Northman…$1.0 Million

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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