Box-Office Weekend: Jackass Steals the Crown

Three newcomers shook up the box-office weekend as Jackass Forever took first place by $13.5 just ahead of Moonfall and sent Spider-Man: No Way Home down a few spots.

Jackass Forever led the weekend with $23.5 million to show for its first three days in release. This was more than enough to best fellow newcomer, Moonfall which debuted in second place with $10 million. Meanwhile, last week’s top film, Spider-Man: No Way Home dropped to third place with $9.6 million over the weekend. The film still trails the third highest domestic grossing film of all time, Avatar, by $11.5 million as No Way Home sits at $749 million and Avatar at $760.5 million. Scream similarly fell a couple spots to finish in fourth place with $4.7 million. The latest film in the horror franchise now stands at $68.9 million over its first four weeks in release. Fifth place belonged soundly to the animated musical Sing 2 which added $4.2 million over the weekend to give the film a seven-week total of $139.6 million.

Dropping only one place to finish in sixth over the weekend was the latest “Kingsmen” film, The King’s Man which brought in $1.2 million to lift its seven-week total to $35.8 million. Last week’s third-place finisher, Redeeming Love plummeted to seventh place over the weekend making only $1 million to boost its three-week total to $8.1 million. The dramatization of NFL player Kurt Warner, American Underdog dropped one spot to finish in eighth place with $800,000. The film has now reigned in $25.9 million over the past seven weeks. The action/adventure The 355 fell from sixth to ninth place over the weekend adding $700,000 to give it a five-week total of $14.2 million. Finally, the third newcomer to the top ten, the family-friendly French/Canadian The Wolf and the Lion (Le loup et le lion), brought in $675,000 over the course of its debut weekend.

Three films were pushed from the box-office weekend top ten over the last three days. Last weekend’s eight, ninth, and tenth place movies (Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Licorice Pizza, and West Side Story respectively) were all replaced by already mentioned newcomers to the top ten. Ghostbusters: Afterlife leaves with a twelve-week total of $128.8 million, Licorice Pizza with an eleven-week tally of $12.7 million, and West Side Story with $36.7 million over nine weeks.

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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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