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Box-Office Weekend: “Gran Turismo” Proves Grand

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the second weekend in a row, a new film finished on top of the box-office weekend as Gran Turismo debuted with $17.3 million.

In its first weekend in release, Gran Turismo managed to best the second-place film by $0.2 million and narrowly eke out a stint atop the top ten, for at least one week. Although it had to settle for second place with $17.1 million, Barbie managed to hold its ground from last weekend and bring its six-week total to $595 million, making it the top grossing domestic film of the year by $20.3 million (well, currently anyway). Dropping from first to third was Blue Beetle which brought in $12.8 million over the weekend to raise its two-week total to $46.3 million. Oppenheimer found itself in fourth place with $9 million this weekend, giving it a six-week total of $300 million. In fifth place with $6.1 million, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem brought its four-week total to $98.1 million.

Meanwhile, Meg 2: The Trench remained ensconced in sixth place with $5.1 million over the weekend. This gives the film a four-week total of $74.4 million. Dropping two spots to finish in seventh-place this weekend was the R-rated comedy Strays with $4.7 million. The film now sports a two-week total of $16.1 million. Debuting in eighth place over the weekend with $3.3 million, was Retribution. The final new film in the top ten, The Hill, debuted in the ninth spot with $2.5 million this weekend. Finally, despite dropping two spots, Haunted Mansion managed to hold onto tenth place with $2.1 million over the weekend, giving it a five-week total of $62.3 million.

Three films found themselves displaced from the box-office top ten this weekend. Despite a seventh-place finish last week, Talk to Me failed to make the cut this weekend and departs the list with a five-week total of $41.1 million. After seven weeks in release, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One also dropped from the top ten, but the film still sports an overall tally of $168.1 million. Last weekend’s tenth-place finisher, The Last Voyage of the Demeter leaves the weekend box office top ten with a disappointing three-week total of only $13.3 million.

Weekend Box Office (August 25th – August 27th)

  1. Gran Turismo…$17.3 Million
  2. Barbie…$17.1 Million
  3. Blue Beetle…$12.8 Million
  4. Oppenheimer…$9 Million
  5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem…$6.1 Million
  6. Meg 2: The Trench…$5.1 Million
  7. Strays…$4.7 Million
  8. Retribution…$3.3 Million
  9. The Hill…$2.5 Million
  10. Haunted Mansion…$2.1 Million

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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