Box-Office Weekend: Dragon Ball Takes the Lead

There is a new film atop the box-office weekend, and it might not be the film most expected, as Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero took the top spot by $8.5 million to claim the number one ranking.

As Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero debuted at number one with $20.1 million over the weekend, it bested Idris Elba and Beast, which came in second place with $11.6 million in its first weekend of release. Meanwhile, this pushed Brad Pitt and Bullet Train to third place with $8.0 million. The action/comedy/thriller now sports a three-week total of $69.0 million. Dropping one spot to finish in fourth place over the weekend was Top Gun: Maverick which added $5.9 million over the weekend, allowing it to leapfrog over DC League of Super-Pets which bringing its thirteen-week total to $683.4 million, allowing it to pass Avengers: Infinity War to claim the sixth highest lifetime gross. Meanwhile, DC League of Super-Pets finished in fifth place with $5.8 million, bringing its four-week total to $67.5 million.

Dropping from fourth-place to sixth was Thor: Love and Thunder</em< which took in $4.0 million to bring its seven-week total to $332.1 million. This pushed Nope from fifth to seventh place as it added $3.5 million over the weekend to raise its five-week total to $113.8 million. Meanwhile, Minions: The Rise of Gru was pushed to eighth place with with $3.5 million just behind Nope as it brought its eight-week total to $350.0 million. While last weekend’s seventh-place finisher, Where the Crawdads Sing dropped a couple spots to finish in ninth place with $3.1 million, it also lifted its six-week total to $77.7 million. Finally, in its third weekend of release, the comedy/horror/thriller Bodies Bodies Bodies managed to bring in $2.4 million and finish in the tenth spot, raising its overall total to $7.4 million as it fell two spots since last weekend.

Again, two films were pushed from the weekend box-office top ten this time around as Elvis leaves the top ten after bringing in $144.8 million over the last nine weeks. Last weekend’s tenth-place film, Fall, stayed true to its name and fell from the top ten with a two-week total of $4.9 million.

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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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