Posted August 12, 2019 by Mike Tyrkus in News

Box-Office Weekend: Fast & Furious Keeps Pace Ahead of Scary Stories

Still standing tall on top of the box-office weekend countdown was Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, which held onto first place for the second week in a row. The latest offering of the “Fast & Furious” franchise took in $25.4 million this weekend, giving it a two-week tally of $108.5 million and an ever-so-slight first-place finish over newcomer Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which debuted with $20.8 million.

Just behind the top weekend finishers was The Lion King (2019), which dropped one spot to third place with a $20 million domestic tally, and a four-week total of $473.1 million. The second film debuting in the top ten this week, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, finished in fourth place with $17 million and positive reviews all around. Meanwhile, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was also felled a few spots by the newcomers as Quentin Tarantino’s latest dropped to fifth place (from third last week) taking in $11.6 million, giving the film a three-week total of $100.3 million.

The third film to debut this week, the drama The Art of Racing in the Rain, took in $8.1 million amidst generally positive reviews from both critics and audiences alike allowing it to land in sixth place. Meanwhile, The Kitchen also debuted, earning $5.5 million and not so positive reviews and a seventh-place finish, which suggests it might just make a quick exit from the top ten. Spider-Man: Far from Home plummeted from fourth place to eighth over the weekend, taking in $5.3 million. This gives the film a six-week cumulative total of $371 million. Following Spidey down the top ten, from fifth to ninth, was Disney’s Toy Story 4, which took in $4.4 million over the weekend, giving the Pixar/Disney behemoth a cumulative eight-week total of $419.6 million.

Finally, the documentary on South Korean boy band BTS, Bring the Soul: The Movie, managed to finish in the tenth spot with $2.3 million in its first week of release (though some sources cite The Farewell as finishing slightly ahead of that [see below]).

Among the several films leaving the top ten this weekend, were: the Beatles-inspired love story Yesterday, which leaves with a total of $70.5 million since being release in late June; the aforementioned The Farewell, which boasts a cumulative total of $10.3 million; the horror-film, Crawl, which has brought in $38.1 million since opening on July 12; the Disney hit Aladdin, which has tallied $352.8 million since opening way back in May; and the disappointing Annabelle Comes Home, which sports a tally of $72.1 million since being released at the end of June.

Weekend Box-Office (August 9th – August 11th)

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw…$25.4 Million
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark…$20.8 Million
The Lion King…$20 Million
Dora and the Lost City of Gold…$17 Million
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood…$11.6 Million
The Art of Racing in the Rain…$8.1 Million
The Kitchen…$5.5 Million
Spider-Man: Far from Home…$5.3 Million
Toy Story 4…$4.4 Million
Bring The Soul: The Movie…$2.3 Million

As is usually the case throughout the summer, next weekend looks to provide us with another volatile shakeup of the box-office weekend as four new films are currently scheduled to be released, including Sony’s The Angry Birds Movie 2, which will release early on Tuesday. Then, on Friday, we’ll see the arrival of 47 Meters Down: Uncaged from Entertainment Studios; Universal’s Good Boys; Where’d You Go, Bernadette? from United Artists Releasing; and Warner Brothers’ Blinded by the Light.

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Mike Tyrkus

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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.