Box-Office Weekend: Encanto Ain’t Fraid of No Ghosts

Walt Disney’s new film Encanto took over the box-office weekend, unseating Ghostbusters: Afterlife by a mere $2.5 million.

The animated tale of Mirabel and her magical family – Encanto – made $27.0 million over the weekend, giving the film a total of $40.3 million over the course of its opening week. Meanwhile, last week’s top film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, dropped to second place with $24.5 million. This gives the film a two-week tally of $87.8 million. The second debut of the weekend, House of Gucci, finished in third place with $14.2 million over the last three days and $21.8 million total for the week. Marvel’s Eternals fell from second to fourth with $7.9 million over the weekend. The latest Marvel film now sports a four-week total of $150.6 million. The latest film in the “Resident Evil” series, called Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, took in $5.3 during its first three days of release to land in fifth place of the top ten.

The family film, Clifford the Big Red Dog managed to retrieve $4.9 million in its third weekend of release, but still dropped from third place to sixth. The film now claims a three-week tally of $42.9 million. Falling from fourth place to seventh was the Will Smith starring King Richard, which brought in $3.3 million over the weekend, giving the film a total of $11.4 million for the past two weeks. The science-fiction epic, Dune: Part One fell three spots to finish in eighth with $2.2 million. The film now sports a six-week total of $102.2 million. Dropping from seventh place to finish in ninth with $1.8 million was No Time To Die, which has made $158.1 million over its first eight weeks of release. Finally, the behemoth of the box-office, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, rounds out the top ten with $1.6 million, falling from sixth place last week. The film can now claim a nine-week total of $209.5 million.

Several films were pushed from the weekend box-office top ten; these included the three films that finished in the final spots last week. The first of which, The French Dispatch, leaves with a six-week total of $14.5 million. Secondly, Belfast ends its three-week run in the top ten earning $5 million. Finally, the animated Ron’s Gone Wrong departs the top ten after amassing $22.7 million in its six weeks of release.

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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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