Box-Office Weekend: Indiana Jones Returns

After spending a single week atop the box-office weekend, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was vehemently removed from the top spot as Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny took control of the weekend by a margin of $48.5 million.

In it’s first weekend of release, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny debuted at number one with $60.0 million over the weekend. This easily beat last weekend’s top film, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as that film could only muster $11.5 million over the weekend. In its first five weeks of release however, the film has brought in $339.9 million overall. Dropping from second to third was Pixar’s Elemental which finished just behind Across the Spider-Verse with $11.3 million, bringing its three0week total to $29.3 million. Holding its ground in fourth place was the Jennifer Lawrence-led No Hard Feelings with $7.5 million. This gives the film a two-week tally of $29.3 million. Also holding steady was Transformers: Rise of the Beasts in fifth place with $7.0 million. This gives the film a four-week total of $136.1 million.

The second debut of the weekend, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken landed in sixth-place with $5.2 million over the weekend. Standing her ground and holding onto seventh-place was The Little Mermaid which added $5.15 million over the weekend to raise its six-week total to $281.0 million. Plummeting from third- to eighth-place this weekend was The Flash which only brought in $5.0 million in its third weekend of release, to lift its overall total to a disappointing $99.3 million. Elsewhere, in its third weekend, Asteroid City fell three spots to finish in ninth-place this weekend with $3.8 million. The film now claims an overall total of $18.1 million. Finally, after finishing in eighth-place last weekend, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 dropped two spots to land in tenth-place where it added $1.8 million over the weekend to raise its nine-week total to $354.9 million.

Two films departed the top ten of the box-office weekend over the last three days as both the ninth- and tenth-place films from last weekend were pushed out. The Blackening fell from ninth-place to off the list completely after garnering a three-week total of $15.4 million. Meanwhile, after five weeks, The Boogeyman scoots out of the top ten with a total gross of $41.1 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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