Box-Office Weekend—Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Reclaims Top Spot

As predicted last week, right here in the Box-Office Weekend column, the top ten didn’t fluctuate much at all during this past weekend, save for the week’s lone new release and a few films shuffling positions with each other. First, returning to the top spot is Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle with $11 million. The sequel has now brought in a staggering $352.6 million during its seven-week run. Meanwhile, last week’s first-place finisher, Maze Runner: The Death Cure managed $10.2 million to increase its two-week haul to $39.8 million.

The only newcomer this past weekend, the Helen Mirren-led horror film Winchester, finished in third place with $9.3 million and seems off to a decent start given the competition it was facing. The Greatest Showman held firm to the fourth spot with $7.8 million. The Hugh Jackman film has now made $137.5 million domestically during its seven-week run. Elsewhere, falling from third to fifth this week is the Scott Cooper directed Hostiles, which brought in $5.5 million in its seventh week of release and second after expanding nationwide.

Steven Spielberg’s The Post finished with $5.2 million and continues to do solid business after racking up a slew of Oscar nominations. The film has now made $67.2 million domestically since its release seven weeks ago. As did The Post, 12 Strong fell a spot this week to seventh with $4.7 million, just edging out Den of Thieves which made approximately $4.67 million over the weekend and finished in the eighth spot.

The Shape of Water, from director Guillermo del Toro, also dropped a spot down to ninth earning $4.3 million, bringing its ten-week total to $44.6 million. Finally, Paddington 2 brought in an additional $3.1 million to raise its four-week box-office take to $36.3 million. Next week sees a new film (and supposedly the last one) in the “Fifty Shades” franchise—Fifty Shades Freed—as well as the family-friendly (supposedly) Peter Rabbit, and director Clint Eastwood’s latest film The 15:17 to Paris, starring the actual people who lived through the events of the film and not actors.

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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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