Box-Office Weekend: Dune: Part Two Takes Over

A new film stands on top of the box-office weekend as Dune: Part Two debuted with an overwhelming $74.1 million margin of victory.

The long-awaited sequel Dune: Part Two opened with $81.5 million in its first three days in release for Warner Bros., easily taking the lead of this week’s top ten. This nearly doubled the opening weekend enjoyed by the first film in the series back in 2021. In its third weekend of release, Paramount Pictures’ Bob Marley: One Love fell to second place where it brought in $7.4 million to raise its overall total to $82.8 million. Holding steady in third place was Ordinary Angels which added $3.9 million over the weekend to bring its two-week tally to $12.6 million. Meanwhile, Madame Web took in $3.2 million for Columbia Pictures in its third weekend to hold onto fourth place and lift its three-week total to $40.4 million. Debuting in fifth place was the Fathom Event The Chosen (episodes seven through eight, from season four) with $3.15 million.

Dropping a spot to land in sixth where it added $2.5 million was Migration. This gives the film from Universal Pictures an eleven-week total of $123.5 million. Falling five spots to finish in seventh-place this weekend was Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To the Hashira Training which, in its second weekend of release, brought in $2.1 million, giving the Sony Pictures product an overall total of $15.7 million. In its twelfth week of release, the Warner Bros. offering Wonka dropped a spot and claimed eighth-place with $1.7 million over the weekend, giving the film a cumulative tally of $216.8 million. Falling three spots to land in ninth place this weekend, Argylle added $1.4 million to give the Universal Pictures International product a five-week total of $44.0 million. After claiming a ninth-place finish last weekend, The Beekeeper assumed tenth-place this weekend with $1.1 million. This gives the film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and eight-week total of $64.9 million.

Two entries were forced out of the weekend box office the past three days. Last weekend’s eighth-place film Drive-Away Dolls departs after only one week in the top ten, making only $4.3 million for Focus Features. Finally, Episodes 4-6 of Season 4 of The Chosen dropped out of box-office weekend after bringing in $1.8 million last week.

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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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