Box-Office Weekend: Inside Out 2 Dominates

After claiming the top spot of the box-office weekend seven days ago by a whopping $122 million, Inside Out 2 held onto that spot this weekend by the slightly smaller margin of $81.2 million.

In its second weekend of release, Inside Out 2 brought in $100.0 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures as it easily remained in the number one spot of the box-office weekend top ten. In a distant second place remained Bad Boys: Ride or Die with $18.8 million. In its third week of release, the Sony Pictures Releasing product has brought in a total of $146.9 million for the studio. Meanwhile, Focus Features enjoyed the debut of The Bikeriders in third place, where it made $10.0 million over the course of its first weekend in release. Holding steady in fourth place was The Garfield Movie which made $3.6 million in its fifth weekend in release, to bring its overall total to $85.1 million for Sony Pictures Releasing. Dropping two spots to land in fifth place, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes brought in $3.6 million for 20th Century Studios to raise its seven-week total to $164.4 million.

Despite being in its sixth week of release, Paramount Pictures’ IF managed to hold onto sixth place with $2.8 million over the weekend, giving it an cumulative tally of $106.6 million. Meanwhile, Vertical Entertainment’s The Exorcism debuted in seventh place over the weekend with $2.4 million. Magnolia Pictures enjoyed a debut in the top ten this weekend as well as the studio’s Thelma landed in eighth place with $2.2 million. After finishing in fifth place last weekend, The Watchers fell four spots to land in ninth place where it took in $1.9 million for Warner Bros., bringing its overall total of $17.7 million. Finally, the fourth debut on this weekend’s top ten, GHOST: Rite Here Rite Now claimed tenth place, where it brought in $1.5 million for Trafalgar Releasing.

Last weekend’s bottom four films were all pushed out of the top ten this week. First of all, after bringing in $66.1 million for Warner Bros. during the last five weeks, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga couldn’t hold onto a spot in the top ten after landing in seventh place last weekend. Meanwhile, last weekend’s eighth-place film, The Fall Guy did not make the jump to this week’s top ten and instead settled for an eight-week total of $90.0 million for Universal Pictures. In its sixth week of release, The Strangers: Chapter 1 has managed to make a total of $34.8 million for Lionsgate Films, despite falling out of the top ten this weekend. Finally, the Fathom Event re-release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring took in a total of $3.1 million over the last two weeks, despite dropping from the top ten this weekend.

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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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