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Box Office Weekend: It Holds Top Spot

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

The horror film It topped the box office again this week with $60 million. The two-week total for the film fell just short of $220 million but has established the Stephen King adaptation as the highest grossing September release of all time. In a distant second-place was American Assassin with $14.8 million in its first week of release.

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! finished in third with $7.5 million in its initial week of release and has apparently not been winning audiences over despite the presence of star Jennifer Lawrence. Meanwhile, the Reese Witherspoon comedy Home Again brought in $5.3 million to bring its two-week total to $17.1, which was good enough to hold fourth place this week. The Hitman’s Bodyguard brought its five-week total to $70.4 million with $3.6 million this weekend, which held fifth place for it.

The successful six-week run for Annabelle: Creation continued as the horror film took in $2.6 million to raise its total to $99.9 million (nearly breaching the $100 million plateau and becoming the only August 2017 release to do so). Meanwhile, the well-reviewed Wind River brought in $2.6 million raising its seven-week total to $29.1 million. The animated film Leap! Brought its four-week total to $18.7 million with an additional $2.1 million this weekend. While Spider-Man: Homecoming continued to stick around in the top ten with $1.9 million, which brought its eleven-week total to $330.3 million. Finally, Dunkirk looks poised to fall out of the top ten in the coming weeks as it fell to tenth with $1.3 million (though it is still critically beloved and has made $185.1 million over the past nine weeks).

Weekend Box Office (September 15 – September 17)

  1. It…$60 Million
  2. American Assassin…$14.8 Million
  3. Mother!…$7.5 Million
  4. Home Again…$5.3 Million
  5. The Hitman’s Bodyguard…$3.6 Million
  6. Annabelle: Creation…$2.6 Million
  7. Wind River…$2.6 Million
  8. Leap!…$2.1 Million
  9. Spider-Man: Homecoming…$1.9 Million
  10. Dunkirk…$1.3 Million

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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