Box-Office Weekend: Godzilla and Kong Still Kings

For the second consecutive week, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire held the top spot of the box-office weekend, handily besting the second-place film by $21.6 million.

In its second week of release, the Warner Bros. release, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire brought in $31.7 million to raise its overall total to $135.0 million. This was more than enough to best second-place finisher Monkey Man, which took in $10.1 million for Universal Pictures during its weekend debut. Meanwhile, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire fell to third place, displaced by Monkey Man, where it added $9.0 million to bring its three-week gross to $88.9 million for Sony Pictures Releasing. The second debut of the weekend, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures latest The First Omen took fourth place with $8.4 million. Falling one spot to claim fifth place was Kung Fun Panda 4 with $7.9 million. This brings the film’s five-week tally to $166.1 million for Universal Pictures.

Dropping three spots to finish in sixth place over the weekend was Dune: Part Two, which earned $7.2 million over its sixth weekend in release. This brings the Warner Bros. product’s overall total to $264.9 million. The third debut of the weekend, the Fathom Events offering of Someone Like You finished in seventh place with $3.0 million. At the same time, Sony Pictures Releasing saw its Wicked Little Letters crack the top ten in its second week of release and first in wide release with $1.6 million over the weekend, bringing its total to $1.7 million. Falling three places to a ninth-place finish with $1.5 million this weekend was Arthur the King from Lionsgate Films. This brings the film’s four-week tally to $22.2 million. Finally, after claiming fifth place last weekend, Immaculate plummeted to tenth place this weekend, earning $1.4 million; raising the film’s three-week total to $14.1 million.

Four films from last weekend’s top ten were forced from this weekend list. The films that finished in seventh- thru tenth-place last week, all failed to make the list again this weekend. After three weeks, and bringing in $8.5 million for IFC Films, Late Night with the Devil couldn’t crack the top ten after claiming seventh place last weekend. Both Tillu Square and Crew bowed out of the top ten after appearing in eighth- and ninth-place for only one week; the former earning $1.9 million and the latter $1.5 million. Finally, after five weeks, the Lionsgate Films offering, Imaginary leaves the top ten with $27.4 million.

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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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