Box-Office Weekend: Ghostbusters Claim Crown

A new films sits atop the box-office weekend top ten, as Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire debuted $27.6 million ahead of its nearest competition, easily claiming the number one spot.

In its first weekend of release, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire took in $45.2 million for Sony Pictures Releasing. This was more than enough to best second-place finisher Dune: Part Two which held its ground in second place with $17.6 million, giving the film a four-week total of $233.4 million for Warner Brothers. Meanwhile, the top film last weekend, Kung Fu Panda 4, was pushed down to third place where it took in $16.8 million, bringing its three-week tally to $133.2 million for Universal Pictures. The horror film Immaculate debuted in fourth place bringing in $5.4 million over the weekend. Despite falling two spots from last weekend to finish in fifth place this week, Arthur the King still brought in $4.4 million for Lionsgate Films to bring its two-week total to $14.6 million.

The third, and final, debut in this weekend’s top ten, Late Night with the Devil landed in sixth place where it brought in $2.83 million for IFC Films. This proved just enough to best Imaginary which fell three spots to land in seventh this weekend with $2.8 million. This gives the offering from Lionsgate Films a three-week total of $23.6 million. Dropping two spots landed Love Lies Bleeding in eighth place where it added $1.6 million for A24, lifting its three-week total to $5.7 million. Last weekend’s fifth-place film, Cabrini, dropped four spots this weekend to finish in ninth place with $1.4 million. The film has now made a total of $16.2 million over the last three weeks for Angel Studios. Finally, after finishing in seventh place last weekend, Bob Marley: One Love landed in the tenth spot this weekend where it added $1.1 million, giving the Paramount Pictures product a six-week total of $95.3 million.

Three films were forced out of the box-office weekend top ten over the last three days as last weekend’s eight-, ninth-, and tenth-place films all failed to make this weekend’s list. Bleecker Street Media’s One Life dropped from the top ten after bringing in $3.5 million for the studio. Meanwhile, after only two weeks, The American Society of Magical Negroes departs the top ten leaving Focus Features $2.2 million richer. Finally, five weeks after its release, Ordinary Angels exits the top ten with $18.8 million earned.

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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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