Box-Office Weekend: Downton Abbey Dominates

With an estimated $31 million opening weekend, the theatrical incarnation of Downton Abbey easily topped the box-office weekend, besting its nearest competitor by over $12 million. The film also gave Focus Features it’s most successful opening of all time. The other new releases over the weekend—Ad Astra and Rambo: Last Blood—did well enough, finishing just behind Downton Abbey and delivering solid openings of their own.

The Brad Pitt-starring science-fiction feature, Ad Astra, finished the weekend in second place with a showing of $19.2 million, while the weekend’s other debut, the Sylvester Stallone-starring action film Rambo: Last Blood finished practically tied with Pitt and Ad Astra taking in $19 million in its opening weekend of release.

The horror film It Chapter Two finished its third week of release with a $17.2 million showing over the weekend and a fourth-place finish. This gives the Stephen King-inspired sequel a cumulative total of $179.2 million—a sum that also makes it one of the highest grossing R-rated horror movies of all time.

Elsewhere, the comedy Hustlers added $17 million over the weekend, landing it in fifth place of this week’s countdown. This gives the Lorene Scarfaria-directed film a two-week total of $62.6 million. The live-action version of The Lion King continued to enjoy solid business as it finished in sixth place, taking in $2.6 million during its tenth weekend of release and lifted its overall total to $537.6 million.

The raunchy comedy Good Boys added another $2.5 million to give the film a six-week total of $77.3 million as well as a seventh-place finish on our list. The action film Angel Has Fallen took in $2.4 million over the weekend to give the Gerard Butler vehicle a five-week tally of $64.7 million and a spot in this week’s countdown at number eight.

Meanwhile, Overcomer ended the weekend bringing in $1.5 million, giving the drama a five-week total of $31.6 million. Finally, also taking in $1.5 million over the weekend was the latest installment of the “Fast & Furious” inspired films, Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, which finished in the tenth spot of the box-office weekend. The film has now amassed $170.6 million over the course of its eight weeks in release.

Next weekend will see the arrival of Abominable from Universal, which will undoubtedly shake up the top ten a bit, but don’t expect too must of drastic change from this weekend’s players.

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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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