Box-Office Weekend: F1 Slays the Dragon

A new film took the lead of the box-office weekend over the last three days as F1: The Movie claimed first place by a margin of $36.2 million.

In its first weekend of release, the Warner Bros. film F1: The Movie made $55.6 million for the studio. This proved more than enough to displace last weekend’s top film, How to Train Your Dragon which brought in $19.4 million to finish in second place for Universal Pictures International. This brings the film’s three-week total to $200.1 million. Meanwhile, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw Elio take in $10.7 million over the weekend to finish in third place. Despite dropping a slot this weekend, the film still sports a two-week total of $42.2 million. The second debut of the weekend, Universal Pictures’ M3GAN 2.0 claimed fourth place with $10.2 million earned during its first weekend of release. Falling three spots to land in fifth place was 28 Years Later which made $9.7 million to bring the film’s two-week total to $50.4 million for Sony Pictures Releasing.

The second film from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the top ten, Lilo & Stitch, dropped two spots from last weekend to land in sixth place this weekend where it added $6.9 million, bringing its six-week total to $400.1 million. Similarly, the Paramount Pictures International product Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning also fell two spots to a finish in seventh place where it added $4.2 million to brings the film’s six-week total to $186.1 million. Falling from sixth to eight was A24’s Materialists with $2.9 million taken in over the weekend, bringing the film’s three-week total to $30.4 million for the studio. Lionsgate saw From the World of John Wick: Ballerina fall two spots again this weekend as the film landed in ninth place with $2.1 million. This gives the film a four-week total of $55.5 million. After an eighth-place finish last weekend, Karate Kid: Legends dropped two spots as well where it made $1.0 million to raise its five-week total to $51.6 million for Sony Pictures Releasing.

Two films from last weekend fell out of the top ten this weekend as the ninth- and tenth-place films from seven days ago both failed to make this weekend’s list. After seven weeks in release, the Warner Bros. release Final Destination: Bloodlines managed to bring in $136.7 million for the studio. Finally, despite cracking the top ten in the final spot last weekend, Kuberaa did not repeat a top ten appearance and instead settled for a cumulative total of $1.8 million for Prathyangira Cinemas.

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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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