Box-Office Weekend: Ghostbusters Tops Eternals

The long-anticipated continuation of the “Ghostbusters” saga, Ghostbusters: Afterlife wrested the top of the box-office weekend from Marvel’s Eternals by a $33.2 million margin.

The latest addition to the “Ghostbusters” canon captured $44.0 million in its first weekend of release. With reviews mixed with regards to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, it remains to be seen whether or not the film will add to its strong opening. Hopefully it does as it has certainly reinvigorated the series. The strong opening for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, dropped Marvel’s Eternals to second place with $10.8 million. The film now claims a three-week total of $135.5 million. In its second week of release, the family-friendly Clifford the Big Red Dog dropped one spot to finish in third place with $8.1 million over the weekend. The film can now bark about a two-week tally of $33.5 million. The second debut of the weekend, King Richard, starring Will Smith as Richard Williams (father to Venus and Serena Williams), made $5.7 million in its first week of release. Falling two spots to fifth place was the science-fiction epic Dune: Part One, which added $3.1 million over the weekend to lift its five-week total to $98.2 million.

Meanwhile, the ever-present Venom: Let There Be Carnage dropped one spot to finish in sixth place with $2.8 million. The film claims the highest overall total of any film currently in the top ten with $206.5 million over eight weeks. Agent 007 finished in seventh place with No Time To Die, after dropping from fourth with $2.7 million over the weekend. This gives Daniel Craig’s final film in the series a total of $154.7 million. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch pulled in $970,000 in its fifth week of release, which was good enough to land the film in the eighth spot and lift its overall total to $13.3 million. Also falling one spot was Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, which finished in ninth place this weekend adding $940,000 to give it a two-week total of $3.4 million. Finally, the animated Ron’s Gone Wrong did enough right to bring in $888,000 over the weekend, allowing it to finish in the final spot of this weekend’s top ten. The film now boasts a five-week total of $22.1 million.

As happened last week, two films again departed the weekend box-office top ten. Spencer abdicates with a three-week total of $6.1 million while the horror film Antlers departs after amassing $10.3 million over its first four weeks in release.

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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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