Box-Office Weekend: Hunger Games Still On Top

Although it didn’t enjoy the margin of victory it did last weekend, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes still held onto the number one spot of the box-office weekend to the tune of $8.4 million.

In its second weekend of release, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes brought in $28.8 million to raise its overall total to $98.4 million for Lionsgate Films while holding onto the top spot over the weekend. Debuting in second place with $20.4 million was Napoleon which now sports an overall total of $32.5 million for Columbia Pictures. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures enjoyed a $19.5 million opening weekend for Wish and an opening of $31.7 million over the extended weekend. Dropping two spots to finish in fourth place was Trolls Band Together with $17.5 million. This gives the Universal Pictures product a two-week total of $64.5 million. After finishing in fourth place last weekend, Thanksgiving dropped to fifth this week where it added $7.3 million for TriStar Pictures, raising its overall total to $24.2 million.

Falling three spots to land in sixth place this weekend was The Marvels which added $6.4 million to raise its three-week total to $76.9 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Dropping only one spot to a seventh-place finish was The Holdovers with $2.8 million. This gives the Focus Features film a five-week total of $12.9 million. Holding its ground in the eighth spot of the top ten was Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour which added $2.3 million over the weekend to bring its seven-week total to $178.3 million. Falling four spots to finish in ninth this weekend was Five Nights at Freddy’s from Universal Pictures International with $1.8 million. This gives the film a five-week total of $136.2 million. Finally, debuting on the top ten in tenth place was Saltburn with $1.7 million. The film has now brought in $3.1 million for Warner Bros. over the last two weeks.

Three films were forced out of the top ten this weekend as last weekend’s seventh-, ninth-, and tenth-place films all saw their time on the list end. After two weeks in release and one in the top ten, Next Goal Wins departs after bringing in $5.7 million for Searchlight Pictures. Five weeks after being released, Priscilla exists the top ten leaving A24 $19.6 million richer. Finally, Paramount Pictures enjoyed a $65.6 million return on the six weeks that Killers of the Flower Moon was 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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