Box-Office Weekend: Freddy Doubles Up Taylor

Sticking around for another week on top of the box-office weekend was Five Nights at Freddy’s as it managed to hold onto first place by a margin of $5.9 million.

In its second weekend of release, Five Nights at Freddy’s pulled in $19.4 million to give the Universal Pictures International product an overall total of $113.6 million. Holding steady in second place was Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour with $13.5 million, giving it a four-week total of $166.0 million. Killers of the Flower Moon also stood firm in third place with $7.0 million added to bring the film’s three week total to $52.3 million for Paramount Pictures. Debuting in the top ten in fourth place was the A24 product Priscilla with $5.1 million in its second week of release, giving the film an overall total of $5.3 million. The second debut of the weekend, Radical from Pantelion Films landed in fifth place with $2.7 million.

Dropping a spot to land in sixth place this weekend was The Exorcist: Believer from Universal Pictures, which added $2.2 million in its fifth week of release to brings its total to $63.2 million. Meanwhile, the Angel Studios offering After Death fell three spots to land in seventh place this weekend with $2.0 million, giving the film a two-week tally of $9.0 million. Falling two spots to claim eighth-place this weekend was PAW Patrol: The Might Movie with $1.97 million, giving the Paramount Pictures product a six-week total of $62.0 million. The final debut of the weekend, What Happens Later landed in ninth place, where it brought in $1.6 million for Bleecker Street Media in its first weekend in release. Finally, falling three spots to claim the tenth spot of the weekend was Relativity Media’s Freelance with $1.2 million. This raises the film’s two-week total to $4.2 million.

Again, three films were displaced from the weekend box-office as, once again, the films in eighth, ninth, and tenth-place all dropped from this week’s list. After three weeks, the thirtieth anniversary re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas departs with an additional $9.9 million added to the film’s previous revenue for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Meanwhile, Saw X has managed to bring in a total of $52.5 million during its six weeks in release for Lionsgate Films. Finally, after six weeks in release, The Creator exits the top ten after earning $40.1 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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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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