Box Office Weekend: Guardians Sequel Dominates for Second Week

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 dominated the box office for a second consecutive week, bringing in an impressive $63 million, which was ultimately $45 million more than second-place finisher Snatched. This week’s haul brings Guardians two-week total to over $246 million.

With $17.5 million, the Amy Schumer/Goldie Hawn vehicle, Snatched, performed admirably against the Marvel juggernaut. Guy Ritchie’s take on the Arthurian Legend, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, pulled in $14.7 million which was good enough for third place (though we speculated it would finish a bit higher last week).

Vin Diesel and The Fate of the Furious took in $5.3 million to bring its domestic total to $215 million. It’s a foregone conclusion that more Furious movies are on the horizon one way or another. The animated The Boss Baby pulls fifth place with $4.6 million.

The rest of the top ten were clumped somewhat tightly together. The highest performing of the lot, Beauty and the Beast, earned $3.9 million, bringing its total box office returns to an impressive $493.2 million. How to Be a Latin Lover brought in $3.8 million, Lowriders earned $2.4 million, The Circle garnered $1.7 million, and Bahuali 2: The Conclusion rounded out the top ten with $1.6 million.

While there’s nothing to suggest that Guardians dominance of the box office won’t continue, it will have a harder time doing so starting this week as director Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi/horror film Alien: Covenant is set to open.

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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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