Box-Office Weekend: Exorcist Expels PAW Patrol

For the second week in a row, a new film sits atop the box-office weekend top ten as The Exorcist: Believer claimed the number one spot by a $15.4 million margin.

In its inaugural weekend of release, The Exorcist: Believer brought in $27.2 million for Universal Pictures, easily taking control of the weekend box office. Last weekend’s top film, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie dropped to second place where it added $11.8 million for Paramount Pictures, bringing the film’s two-week total to $38.9 million. Similarly, Saw X dropped a spot, finishing in third place with $8.2 million his weekend. This gives the latest film in the Lionsgate series an overall total of $32.6 million. Also losing ground by one spot this weekend was The Creator which fell to fourth place where it brought in $6.1 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in its second week of release, lifting its overall total to $24.9 million. Holding firm in fifth place was The Blindw which brought its two-week tally to $10.5 million by adding $4.0 million over the weekend.

Another film not gaining or losing any ground was A Haunting in Venice which remained in sixth place this weekend where it added $2.7 million, to bring its four-week total to $35.7 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Falling three spots to finish in seventh-place this weekend was The Nun II where its added $2.6 million, giving the Warner Bros. product a five-week total of $81.1 million. Meanwhile, this pushed Dumb Money down a spot to an eighth-place finish with $2.2 million for the Sony Pictures Entertainment film. This brings its four-week total to $10.6 million. The Equalizer 3 also fell a spot, finishing in ninth-place with $1.8 million in its sixth-weekend in release, giving the Columbia Pictures product a cumulative total of $88.8 million. Finally, debuting in the tenth spit of this weekend’s top ten was the re-release of the 30th Anniversary edition of Hocus Pocus which managed to bring in $1.5 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, to lift its overall total to $46 million.

Two films were pushed out of the top ten this box-office weekend as both last week’s ninth- and tenth-place films failed to make the cut this weekend. After three weeks in release, Expend4bles leaves the top ten after making a total of $15.4 million for Lionsgate. Meanwhile, the most popular film of the year, Barbie, leaves the top ten after amassing $634.3 million over twelve weeks for Warner Brothers.

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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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