Box-Office Weekend: Encanto Stands Tall Again

For the second straight week, Walt Disney’s Encanto stood atop the box-office weekend, again besting Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

The latest animated blockbuster from Disney – Encanto – added $12.7 million over the weekend, giving it a two-week total of $58.0 million. The film finished $2.3 million ahead of second-place finisher Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which stood pat in its spot, adding $10.4 million to give it a three-week total of $102.2 million. Also holding firm in its spot from last weekend was House of Gucci, which made $6.8 million over the weekend and now sports a two-week total of $33.6 million. Laying claim to the fourth spot of this weekend’s top ten was the first of the weekend’s debuts – Christmas with the Chosen: The Messengers – which brought in $4.1 million over the weekend and $8.8 million for its first week in release. Meanwhile, that dropped Marvel’s Eternals from fourth to fifth place as the film added $3.9 million over the weekend. The film now has a five-week total of $156.5 million.

The latest film in the seemingly endless “Resident Evil” series – Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City – pulled in $2.7 million over the weekend, dropping it from fifth place to seventh. This gives the property a two-week take of $13.2 million. Climbing one spot, from eighth to seventh, was the science-fiction film Dune: Part One, which made $1.8 over the weekend and now sports a seven-week total of $104.6 million. Last week’s sixth-place film, Clifford the Big Red Dog, fell two spots to finish in eighth this weekend with $1.8 million. The film can now bark about a four-week total of $45.7 million. Elsewhere, Will Smith and King Richard dropped from seventh to ninth place with $1.2 million over the weekend. This gives the story of Richard Williams a three-week total of $13.4 million. Finally, the second newcomer to the top ten this past weekend, Sword Art Online: Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night, finished in the final spot earning $1.1 million in its first weekend of release.

Only two films were forced out of the weekend box-office top ten over the past few days. After finishing in ninth place last week, the latest James Bond adventure – No Time To Die – leaves the top ten with a nine-week total of $158.6 million. Finally, the seemingly always-present Venom: Let The Be Carnage, dropped from the tenth spot last week, but still boasts a ten-week tally of $210.9 million. Next week sees the long-anticipated arrival of Steven Spielberg’s version of West Side Story, which is sure to shake up the box office yet again.

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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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