Box-Office Weekend: Frozen II Holds Top Spot

This weekend saw two new films enter the box-office weekend fray, but neither could unseat last week’s top film, Frozen II, from the number one spot. The Disney film delivered a second-weekend tally of $85.3 million, giving it a staggering two-week total of $287.6 million.

The first new film in the top ten this week was Knives Out, which finished in second place with $27 million. Although it was way off from Frozen II, it easily bested third-place finisher Ford v Ferrari which took in $13.2 million in its third week of release, giving it a total of $81 million as it dropped from second last week.

Meanwhile, last week’s third-place finisher, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood finished in fourth with $11.8 million over the weekend. The Tom Hanks vehicle has now amassed $34.3 million in its first two weeks of release. The other newcomer to the top ten this weekend, the drama Queen & Slim debuted to the tune of $11.7 million to land in fifth place, just behind A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

In its second week of release, the Chadwick Boseman action crime drama, 21 Bridges, took in just $5.8 million, which was good enough for a sixth place finish this weekend but doesn’t portend well for the film’s longevity in the top ten. Dropping one spot to seventh over the weekend was the comedy Playing with Fire, which added $4.2 million to give the film a four-week total of $39.2 million.

Midway continued to drop down the top ten, falling to eighth place over the weekend with $4 million and a four-week tally of $50.3 million. Joker, however, climbed up from the tenth spot to ninth this weekend with a $2 million take, which gives the film a nine-week total of $330.6 million.

Finally, the comedy Last Christmas continued its descent in the top ten as it fell from the ninth spot last week to tenth this weekend with a $2 million showing. This gives the film a four-week total of $31.7 million that surely must disappoint someone, somewhere.

Only two films fell from the top ten this weekend. The Good Liar couldn’t hold out for another week and leaves the top ten after making $14.9 million in its first three weeks of release. Meanwhile, Charlie’s Angels departs after just two weeks and amassing a disappointing total of $16.8 million, which all but ensures this is the last we hear from the detectives of the Townsend Agency.

Next weekend will welcome only one newcomer to theater as Playmobil: The Movie opens. Though it remains to be seen whether it will be able to unseat any of the current residents of the weekend box-office.

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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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