Box-Office Weekend: HOPPERS Repeats

Box Office Weekend

Hoppers held onto the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten by a margin of $10.2 million to best two newcomers – Reminders of Him and Undertone.

"Hoppers" posterIn its second weekend of release, Hoppers took in $28.5 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, bringing the film’s overall total to $86.8 million for the studio as the film retained its hold on the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten. Meanwhile, Universal Pictures saw its Reminders of Him debut in second place with $18.3 million earned over the weekend. Behind that, in third place, with $9.3 million, A24’s Undertone debuted with $9.3 million over the weekend. This activity pushed last week’s second-place film, Scream 7 to fourth place where it added $8.4 million, giving the Paramount Pictures International release a three-week total of $106.5 million. Falling from fourth to fifth place, GOAT added $4.7 million in its fifth week of release to lift its overall total to $90.6 million for Sony Pictures Releasing.

After a debut in third place last weekend, The Bride! dropped to sixth place this week where it took in $2.1 million for IMAX, bringing its total to $11.3 million. Seventh place was claimed by the GKIDS re-release of Kiki’s Delivery Service which took in $1.668 million in its first weekend in theaters. Falling three spots to land in eighth place, the Warner Bros. product Wuthering Heights brought in $1.665 million for the studio, raising its five-week total to $81.9 million. The Fandango re-release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze claimed ninth place with $1.5 million taken in over the weekend. Finally, following a sixth-place finish last weekend, the Amazon MGM Studios release Crime 101 fell to tenth place with $1.1 million, giving the film a five-week total of $35.6 million.

Four films fell from this weekend’s top ten as last week’s seventh- through tenth-place finishers all dropped from this week’s list. After seven weeks in release, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ Send Help took in a total of $64.0 million before failing to repeat a seventh-place finish last weekend. Meanwhile, with a four-week total of $17.7 million in the bank, Lionsgate’s I Can Only Imagine 2 also dropped from this weekend’s top ten. Sporting a four-week total of $12.5 million, the NEON release of EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert also fell off of this weekend’s top ten list. Finally, with twenty-seven weeks under its belt, Sony Pictures Releasing’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle falls from the top ten with a cumulative total of $136.6 million.

Weekend Box Office
(March 13th – March 15th)

    1. Hoppers…$28.5 Million
    2. Reminders of Him…$18.3 Million
    3. Undertone…$9.3 Million
    4. Scream 7…$8.4 Million
    5. GOAT…$4.7 Million
    6. The Bride!…$2.1 Million
    7. Kiki’s Delivery Service…$1.668 Million
    8. Wuthering Heights…$1.665 Million
    9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze…$1.5 Million
    10. Crime 101…$1.1 Million
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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