Box-Office Weekend: Insidious Beats Indiana

Insidious: The Red Door displaced Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as the top draw of the box-office weekend, by a narrow margin of $6.2 million.

With an opening weekend tally of $32.7 million, Insidious: The Red Door claimed the number one spot of the top ten this weekend. This pushed last weekend’s top film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to a second-place finish where it added $26.5 million to bring its overall total to $121.2 million. The second debut of the weekend, Sound of Freedom claimed third place with an $18.2 million showing over the weekend and an opening week total of $40.2 million. Dropping a spot to fourth was Elemental which added $9.6 million this weekend to bring its four-week total to $109.2 million. Meanwhile, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse dropped three spots to land in fifth place with $8.0 million over the weekend. This gives the film a six-week total of $357.6 million.

The final debut in the top ten this weekend, Joy Ride landed in sixth place with $5.9 million. After finishing in fourth-place last weekend, No Hard Feelings fell hard to a seventh-place finish this weekend with $5.3 million bringing its three-week total to $40.4 million. Similarly dropping down the scale of the top ten, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts fell three spots to an eighth-place finish with $5.0 million over the weekend. This gives the film a five-week total of $146.7 million. Meanwhile, The Little Mermaid dropped two spots to land in ninth place with $3.5 million. This gives the film a seven-week tally of $289 million. Finally, after claiming sixth-place last weekend, Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken fell four spots to land in tenth-place this weekend with $2.8 million. This gives the film a disappointing two-week total of $11.6 million.

This box-office weekend, the films in eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-place last weekend found themselves forced out of the top ten this week. After only four weeks, The Flash could only gather enough steam to eke out $2.21 million over the weekend, bringing its disappointing four-week total to $105.2 million. Meanwhile, Asteroid City managed to bring in slightly more than The Flash over the weekend with $2.23 million, lifting its four-week tally to $24.1 million. Finally, after ten weeks of stellar business, amassing $357.6 million, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 managed only $1.8 million this weekend, causing it to miss the top ten altogether.

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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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