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Posted November 8, 2021 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: Eternals Buries Dune


Marvel returned to the top of the box-office weekend with a vengeance as Eternals debuted atop the leaderboard a full $63.4 million ahead of its closest competition.

Eternals posterThe latest offering from Marvel Studios has $71 million to show for its opening weekend. Meanwhile, last week’s top film, Dune: Part One finished in second place with $7.6 million. The film now sports a three-week total of $83.9 million. Agent 007 held onto third place adding $6.2 million to the domestic total for No Time To Die, which now stands at $143.2 million over five weeks. Climbing one spot, from fifth to fourth, was the sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which added $4.5 million over the weekend to give the film a six-week total of $197 million.

The family-friendly Ron’s Gone Wrong also scaled a few spots in the top ten, climbing from eighth to fifth place this weekend as it added $3.6 million to give it a three-week total of $17.6 million. Leaping from the tenth spot last weekend to sixth place this weekend was Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, which managed to lure in $2.6 million over the weekend to give the film a three-week tally of $8.5 million. Plummeting from second-place last to seventh this weekend was the horror film Halloween Kills, which added $2.4 million over the weekend to give it a four-week total of $89.7 million.

Debuting in the eighth spot this weekend was the biographical Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart as Lady Diana. The film managed to bring in $2.1 million in its first weekend of release. Meanwhile, the horror film Antlers made only $2.0 million over the weekend, knocking it from seventh place to ninth and leaving it with a two-week total of $7.6 million. Finally, Last Night in Soho dropped from sixth to tenth place after earning $1.8 million this weekend, giving the film a two-week total of $7.6 million.

Over the past two days, two films took leave of the top ten of the weekend box office. Boku no Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission departs with a two-week total of $9.8 million after finishing in fourth place last weekend while the animated film The Addams Family 2 says goodbye to the top ten after a six-week run worth $54.9 million.

Weekend Box Office (November 5th – November 7th)

  1. Eternals…$71.0 Million
  2. Dune: Part One…$7.6 Million
  3. No Time To Die…$6.2 Million
  4. Venom: Let There Be Carnage…$4.5 Million
  5. Ron’s Gone Wrong…$3.6 Million
  6. The French Dispatch…$2.6 Million
  7. Halloween Kills…$2.4 Million
  8. Spencer…$2.1 Million
  9. Antlers…$2.0 Million
  10. Last Night in Soho…$1.8 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.