Box-Office Weekend: Equalizer 3 Claims Crown

A new film has taken the crown of the box-office weekend as The Equalizer 3 claimed first place by the considerable margin of $23.9 million.

With $34.5 million to show for its opening weekend, Columbia Pictures’ The Equalizer 3 easily claimed the top spot of the weekend box-office top ten. Holding steady in second place was Barbie with $10.6 million. The Warner Bros. product now boasts a seven-week total of $609.5 million, which also makes it the highest domestic grossing movie of the year by a margin of $34.6 million. Blue Beetle remained ensconced in third place with $7.3 million over the weekend, giving the Warner Bros. film a three-week total of $56.6 million. Last weekend’s top film, Gran Turismo, dropped to fourth place this weekend with $6.6 million. This gives the film from Sony Pictures Entertainment a two-week total of $28.7 million. Oppenheimer was forced to fifth place with $5.5 million over the weekend. The Universal Pictures film now boasts a seven-week total of $308.6 million.

Paramount Pictures’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem claimed sixth-place with $4.8 million over the last three days. The film now has $106.5 million to show for its five weeks in release. Meanwhile, in its second week of release, Orion Pictures’ Bottoms managed to crack the top ten with $3.0 million to land in seventh-place this weekend. This gives the film a two-week total of $3.7 million. Falling two spots to finish the weekend in eighth-place was Meg 2: The Trench which added $2.9 million, giving the Warner Bros. film a five-week total of $78.4 million. Also dropping double spots was Universal Pictures’ Strays which took ninth place with $2.5 million. This lifts the film’s three-week tally to $20.7 million. Finally, after narrowly missing last weekend’s top ten, Talk to Me managed to claim the final spot this weekend with $1.8 million, giving the A24 film a six-week total of $44.1 million.

Again, three films were pushed from the box-office top ten this weekend. The eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-place films from last weekend all dropped out of the weekend’s list. With a two-week total of $5.8 million, Retribution failed to make the cut this weekend; as did The Hill, which departs the top ten with a two-week total of $4.8 million. Finally, with a six-week tally of $64.1 million, Haunted Mansion fared a bit better than those previous two films, but was still forces from the top ten this weekend.

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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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