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Box-Office Weekend: John Wick Takes Out The Avengers

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

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)

  1. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum…$57 Million
  2. Avengers: Endgame…$29.4 Million
  3. Pokémon Detective Pikachu…$24.8 Million
  4. A Dog’s Journey…$8 Million
  5. The Hustle…$6.1 Million
  6. The Intruder…$4 Million
  7. Long Shot…$3.4 Million
  8. The Sun Is Also a Star…$2.6 Million
  9. Poms…$2.1 Million
  10. UglyDolls…$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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