Box-Office Weekend: Kung Fu Panda 4 Takes Over

Yet again, another new film has taken over the top spot of the box-office weekend as Kung Fu Panda 4 managed to stake a claim on first place by a margin of $12.3 million over last week’s top film.

In it first weekend of release, Universal Pictures’ Kung Fu Panda 4 brought in $58.3 million for the studio, easily claiming first place at the box office. Meanwhile, Dune: Part Two was relegated to second place with $46.0 million in its second weekend of release. Despite the position drop, the film has still made $157.0 million for Warner Bros. and will probably return to the top spot at some point in the future. The second debut in the top ten this weekend, Imaginary, took third place with $10.0 million brought in for Liongates Films. Angel Studios also got in on the debut frenzy as its offering Cabrini finished in fourth place with $7.6 million in its first weekend of release. All of this activity pushed last weekend’s second-place film, Bob Marley: One Love to fifth place where it added $4.1 million to bring its four-week total to $89.3 million for Paramount Pictures.

Falling three spots as well was Ordinary Angels which added $2.0 million over the weekend despite dropping to sixth place. Still, it sports a three-week total of $16.1 million so all is not lost. Meanwhile, Columbia Pictures saw fourth-place Madame Web drop three spots to claim seventh place with $1.12 million over the weekend. This gives the film a four-week total of $42.6 million. While that number is disappointing, the $1.12 million was just enough to edge out Migration which finished the weekend with $1.10 million, giving the Universal Pictures product a twelve-week total of $125.3 million despite its drop two spots to eighth place. Sony Pictures Releasing enjoyed a debut in ninth place over the weekend as Yolo claimed a spot in the top ten with $840,000. Finally, after bringing in $217.8 million for Warner Bros. over the last thirteen weeks, Wonka fell two spots to tenth place this weekend where it added $600,000.

After finishing in fifth place last weekend, The Chosen: Season 4, Episodes 7-8 was pushed from the top ten this weekend. Likewise, the Sony Pictures Releasing product, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To the Hashira Training, failed to land in the top ten again after claiming seventh place last weekend, giving the film a three-week tally of $17.0 million. Last weekend’s ninth- and tenth-place films were both pushed out of the top ten as Argylle leaves after making $44.8 million for Universal Pictures International over the last six weeks and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer garnered $65.3 million from The Beekeeper over the previous eight weeks.

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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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