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Box-Office Weekend: John Wick Bows to Aladdin

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

The live-action reinterpretation of Aladdin granted its studio a wish and stood atop the box-office weekend earning $90.2 million in its first weekend of release. The latest offering from Disney easily bested Keanu Reeves and last week’s top film, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, which finished with $24.6 for its second weekend.

Despite the film’s second-place finish, the third film of the John Wick saga lifted the film’s two-week tally to $101.2 million. Third place went to Avengers: Endgame, which took in $17.2 million and gave the blockbuster a five-week domestic total to $798.6 million. Finishing just behind the Marvel behemoth, as it did last week, was the latest film from the Pokémon universe, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, which added another $13.4 million over the weekend to give the film a three-week total of $116.2 million.

Finishing in a distant fifth-place was the sci-fi/horror film Brightburn with $7.9 million in its first weekend of release. The comedy Booksmart from director Olivia Wilde also debuted over the weekend and managed to take in $6.9 million and finish in the sixth spot of the weekend top ten. The family-friendly canine adventure A Dog’s Journey took in $4.2 million during its second weekend of release, finishing in seventh place, giving it a two-week total of $15 million. The comedy The Hustle fell three spots from fifth to eighth with $3.8 million in its third week of release to give it a cumulative total of $29.8 million as it seems poised to depart the top ten in the very near future.

Elsewhere, the horror/mystery The Intruder finished in ninth place, dropping from a sixth-place finish last week, by adding $2.3 million to raise its four-week total to $32 million. Finally, the Charlize Theron/Seth Rogen comedy, Long Shot, finished in this week’s final spot earning $1.6 million to give it a four-week total of $28.8 million as it too looks poised to depart the top ten in the near future, possible as soon as the coming week.

Three films departed the top ten this week. These were: The Sun Is Also a Star, which enjoyed only one week as part of the top ten earning just $4.5 million during its first week of release; Poms, which has brought in a domestic total of $12.4 million since being released on May 10th; and, finally, UglyDolls with an $18.9 million cumulative tally since its release three weeks ago.

Next week will assuredly see another shake up of the weekend box office as the highly anticipated blockbuster Godzilla: King of the Monsters is set to do battle (such as it will be) with the horror-film Ma and the Elton John biopic Rocketman.

Weekend Box Office (May 24th – May 26th)

  1. Aladdin…$90.4 Million
  2. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum…$24.6 Million
  3. Avengers: Endgame…$17.2 Million
  4. Pokémon Detective Pikachu…$13.4 Million
  5. Brightburn…$7.9 Million
  6. Booksmart…$6.9 Million
  7. A Dog’s Journey…$4.2 Million
  8. The Hustle…$3.8 Million
  9. The Intruder…$2.3 Million
  10. Long Shot…$1.6 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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