Box-Office Weekend: John Wick Takes Out The Avengers
Keanu Reeves and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum easily took the top spot at this week’s box office with a $57 million opening. This is almost twice what John Wick: Chapter 2 brought in when it debuted with $30.4 opening.
In second place, was Avengers: Endgame with $29.4 million in its fourth week of release. This gives the finale of the current spate of Marvel films a domestic total of $770.8 million. Just behind the Avengers behemoth lurks Pokémon Detective Pikachu, which took in $24.8 million for a two-week total of $94 million and a lock on third place.
A very distant fourth-place finish belonged to the family-friendly A Dog’s Journey, which debuted with an $8 million opening weekend. The comedy The Hustle took hold of the fifth spot with $6.1 million in its second week of release to give it a grand total of $23.1 million.
Meanwhile, the horror/mystery The Intruder finished in sixth place adding $4 million to its three-week cumulative total of $28.1 million. The Charlize Theron/Seth Rogen comedy, Long Shot, finished seventh with $3.4 to give it a three-week total of $25.7 million. The other debut this past weekend, the drama/romance The Sun Is Also a Star, took the eighth spot with a $2.6 million opening. The (ahem) comedy Poms, managed to make another $2.1 million over the weekend, to give it a two-week total of $10 million as it seems on a trajectory to depart the top ten rather quickly.
Finally, the animated UglyDolls took the final spot in this week’s top ten with a $1.6 million dollar haul to give a three-week tally of $17.2 million which has to disappoint the studio on several levels.
Next week will see the release of the live-action version of Aladdin from Disney as well as the Olivia Wilde-directed comedy Booksmart.
Weekend Box Office (May 17th – May 19th)
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum…$57 Million
- Avengers: Endgame…$29.4 Million
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu…$24.8 Million
- A Dog’s Journey…$8 Million
- The Hustle…$6.1 Million
- The Intruder…$4 Million
- Long Shot…$3.4 Million
- The Sun Is Also a Star…$2.6 Million
- Poms…$2.1 Million
- UglyDolls…$1.6 Million
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