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Posted November 1, 2021 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: Dune Retains Top Spot


For a second straight week, Dune: Part One held the top spot of the box-office weekend, again, besting Halloween Kills by almost double.

Dune posterDune took in $15.5 million in its second week of release. This gives the sci-fi film a two-week total of $69.4 million. In second, Halloween Kills made $8.5 million during its third weekend, to give it a total of $85.6 million so far. Also, holding firm in the same spot as last week was the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, which added $7.8 million over the weekend to give the film a four-week tally of $133.3 million. Meanwhile, the anime action-adventure film Boku no Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission debuted in the fourth spot of this week’s top ten with an inaugural weekend of $6.4 million.

This knocked Venom: Let There Be Carnage to the fifth spot of this week’s list as it added $5.8 million to give the film a five-week total of $190.4 million. In sixth place was the second of three films debuting in the top ten this week – Last Night in Soho. The thriller brought in $4.2 million in its first weekend of release. The horror film Antlers debuted in the seventh spot of this week’s list also earning $4.2 million.

Falling from the fifth to the eighth spot this weekend was the animated family-film Ron’s Gone Wrong, which added $3.8 million over the weekend to give it a two-week total of $12.6 million. Also, falling a few spots this weekend, was The Addams Family 2, which took in $3.3 million to finish in ninth place, while sporting a five-week tally of $52.9 million. Finally, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch dropped one spot to finish in tenth place in its second week of release. The $2.8 million the film brought in over the weekend raises its overall total to $4.6 million.

Three films again fell out of the weekend box office top ten. The Last Duel leaves with a three-week total of $10.1 million. Meanwhile, the Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings departs after nine weeks in the top ten, amassing a total of $222.8 million. Finally, last week’s tenth-place finisher, Honsla Rakh, exits the top ten with a two-week total of $1.8 million.

Weekend Box Office (October 29th – October 31st)

  1. Dune: Part One…$15.5 Million
  2. Halloween Kills…$8.5 Million
  3. No Time To Die…$7.8 Million
  4. Boku no Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission…$6.4 Million
  5. Venom: Let There Be Carnage…$5.8 Million
  6. Last Night in Soho…$4.2 Million
  7. Antlers…$4.2 Million
  8. Ron’s Gone Wrong…$3.8 Million
  9. The Addams Family 2…$3.3 Million
  10. The French Dispatch…$2.8 Million
Mike Tyrkus

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.