Box-Office Weekend: Invitation Assumes Crown

The box-office weekend was again topped by a new film as The Invitation debuted in the number one spot, besting the second-place film by mere $1.4 million.

The horror film debuted atop the weekend box-office with $7.0 million in its first weekend of release. This was enough to beat Bullet Train which managed to climb a spot back up the rankings to finish in second-place with $5.6 million over the weekend. This gives the film a four-week total of $78.2 million. Meanwhile, Idris Elba and Beast fell a spot and landed in third with $4.9 million in it second weekend of release, giving it a total to date of $20.1 million. Holding its ground in fourth place was Top Gun: Maverick which made $4.8 million over the weekend to bring its fourteen-week total to $691.2 million. The film is now about $9.0 million shy of passing Black Panther to claim the fifth highest lifetime domestic gross. In its second week of release, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero dropped from the top spot to finish in fifth place with $4.6 million, giving it a two-week tally of $30.8 million.

Falling one spot to finish in sixth place was DC League of Super-Pets with $4.2 million. This gives the latest film from the DC Universe a five-week total of $74.1 million. Meanwhile, director George Miller’s fantasy/romance Three Thousand years of Longing debuted in seventh place with $2.9 million to show for its first weekend of work. Standing, ahem, tall in eighth place were the yellow heroes of Minions: The Rise of Gru which held onto their spot with $2.74 million earned over the weekend, bringing the film’s nine-week total to $354.8 million. The God of Thunder, however, fell three spots to finish in eighth place as Thor: Love and Thunder landed just behind the Minions with $2.7 million, raising its eight-week total to $336.6 million. Finally, last weekend’s ninth-place film, Where the Crawdads Sing finished firmly in the tenth spot this weekend with $2.3 million. This brings the film’s seven-week total to $81.9 million.

Another two films were thrust from the top ten again this weekend as Nope took leave of the list after finishing in the seventh spot last weekend. The Jordan Peele film leaves with a six-week total of $117.6 million. Meanwhile, last weekend’s tenth-place film, Bodies Bodies Bodies, departs the box-office weekend with a four-week total of $9.7 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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