Box-Office Weekend: Garfield Crowned King

A new film sits atop the box-office weekend as The Garfield Movie managed to claim the number one slot by the margin of $3.2 million.

After finishing in second place last weekend, The Garfield Movie took over the box-office weekend top ten with $14.0 million in its second weekend of release. This gives the Sony Pictures Releasing offering a two-week tally of $51.6 million, allowing it to finish just $3.2 million ahead of second-place IF. The Paramount Pictures product brought in $10.8 million during its third weekend in release, raising its overall total to $80.4 million. Meanwhile, the Warner Bros. film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga dropped two spots, after finishing in first place last weekend, to land in third place with $10.7, just $0.1 million behind IF. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes however, held steady in fourth place where it added $8.8 million to raise its four-week total to $140.1 million for 20th Century Studios. Also remaining in the spot it held last weekend, The Fall Guy took in $4.2 million to claim fifth place. This gives the Universal Pictures product a five-week total of $80.3 million.

Holding its ground in sixth place, The Strangers: Chapter 1 brought in $3.6 million over the weekend for Lionsgate Films, raising its three-week total to $28.4 million. The first of three debuts this weekend, Crunchyroll’s Haikyuu!! The Dumpster Battle, landed in seventh place with $3.5 million over the last three days. Meanwhile, In a Violent Nature debuted in eighth place where it took in $2.1 million for IFC Films. Bleecker Street Media’s Ezra debuted in ninth place with $1.2 million over the weekend. Finally, last weekend’s seventh-place finisher, Sight dropped three spots to land in tenth this weekend where it brought in $1.1 million for Angel Studios, to bring its two-week total to $5.9 million.

The bottom trio of films from last weekend were the displacement victims this week as all three were forced from the top ten by new arrivals. With six weeks in release in the rearview mirror, Challengers leaves the top ten after bringing in $47.1 million for United Artists Releasing. After only three weeks in release, the Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, takes a bow and departs the top ten after bringing in $6.0 million for Focus Features. Finally, following three weeks in release that brought in a total of $2.8 million, Babes has also dropped out of the the top ten.

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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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