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Box-Office Weekend: “Knock at the Cabin” Downs “Avatar”

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

It was bound to happen eventually, but Avatar: The Way of Water was finally ousted as the top film of the box-office weekend by two new arrivals, with Knock at the Cabin taking the top spot over 80 for Brady by $1.7 million.

Debuting in first place over the weekend was M. Night Shayamalan’s Knock at the Cabin with $14.2 million. This was just enough to best second-place 80 for Brady which also opened over the weekend with $12.5 million. These two new films pushed Avatar: The Way of Water to third place where it added $10.8 million to bring its eight-week total to $636.4 million. The film has now cracked the top ten of lifetime domestic grosses. Meanwhile, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish added $8.0 million over the weekend as it again held its ground just behind Avatar to land in fourth place. The third debut in the top ten this weekend, BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas, which made $6.3 million and a total of $9.1 million in its first overall week in release, finished in fifth place.

Tom Hanks and A Man Called Otto dropped from third to sixth place with $4.2 million over the weekend. Overall, the film has grossed a total of $53.0 million in its first six weeks in release. Similarly dropping from fourth to seventh place was the horror film M3GAN as it added $3.8 million this weekend to bring its five-week total to $87.6 million. Falling two spots to finish in eighth over the weekend was Missing with $3.7 million. The film now lays claim to a three-week total of $23 million. In its twelfth week of release, Homecoming managed to crack the top ten with $3.6 million over the weekend, giving it an overall gross of $18.3 million to date. After debuting in the top ten in fifth place last weekend, Pathaan fell all the way to tenth place this weekend with $2.7 million, giving the film a two-week total of $14.3 million.

For the second week in a row, four films were ousted from the top ten over the box-office weekend as last weekend’s seventh-, eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-place films were all displaced by new arrivals. Plane departs after bringing in $28.9 million over the last four weeks. Meanwhile, Infinity Pool, Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist, and The Wandering Earth II all drop out of the top ten after only two weeks apiece. Both Left Behind and Wandering Earth leave with $3.5 million total while Infinity Pool can boast besting both of them with $4.3 million over the last two weeks.

Weekend Box Office (February 3rd – February 5th)

  1. Knock at the Cabin…$14.2 Million
  2. 80 for Brady…$12.5 Million
  3. Avatar: The Way of Water…$10.8 Million
  4. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish…$8.0 Million
  5. BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas…$6.3 Million
  6. A Man Called Otto…$4.2 Million
  7. M3GAN…$3.8 Million
  8. Missing…$3.7 Million
  9. Homecoming…$3.6 Million
  10. Pathaan…$2.7 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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