Box-Office Weekend: Joker Reclaims the Top Spot

After a week hiatus from the box-office weekend top spot, Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix, reclaimed its perch atop the top ten, bringing in $18.9 million. This gives the film an impressive four-week total of $277.6 million.

In a very close second-place finish was last week’s top film, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which made $18.5 million. The film now boasts a two-week tally of $65.4 million, despite dropping from the top spot over the weekend. Climbing up one spot this weekend was the animated film The Addams Family, which added $11.7 million over the weekend to give the film a three-week total of $72.8 million.

Dropping from third to fourth place this weekend was the sequel Zombieland: Double Tap, which finished just behind Maleficent with a weekend total of $11.6 million and a two-week cumulative finish of $47.0 million. Fifth place was owned solidly by newcomer to the top ten, Countdown, which took in $9.0 million in its first week of release.

Another newcomer to the top ten, Black and Blue, managed to bank $8.3 million in its first week of release, landing it in sixth place. Meanwhile, Will Smith and Gemini Man dropped from the fifth to the seventh spot with $4.0 million over the weekend, giving the film a disappointing three-week tally of $43.3 million.

Elsewhere, the film The Lighthouse took in $3.1 million in its second weekend of release after a modest expansion to give it a total of $3.7 million and a solid claim to the eighth spot in our top ten. Our third and final newcomer to the top ten this weekend, The Current War, debuted in ninth place with a showing of $2.7 million in its first week of release.

Finally, the animated film Abominable managed to scratch out another $6.2 million over the weekend to give it a five-week intake of $56.8 million and a stake to the tenth spot of the box-office weekend countdown, despite falling precipitously from the sixth spot last weekend.

Several films left the top ten this box-office weekend after considerably long stays, including: Downton Abbey, which enjoyed $92.2 million during its time in the weekend top ten; the comedy Hustlers, which made $103 million; the biopic Judy starring Renée Zellweger sang to the tune of $20.7 million during its run in the top ten; and the horror film sequel It Chapter Two brought in $210.1 million during its prolonged occupation of the top ten.

Next box-office weekend will feature the release of the next film in the “Terminator” saga, Terminator: Dark Fate from Paramount as well as the animated adventure Arctic Dogs. Also getting slightly smaller releases are potential films of interest: Harriet and Motherless Brooklyn.

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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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