Box-Office Weekend: Lion King Stands Ground Against Tarantino

Standing proudly atop Box-Office Weekend Rock (if there was such a place) for the second week in a row was Disney’s The Lion King. The live-action rendition of the beloved animated feature took in $75.5 million in its second weekend of release, giving it an impressive two-week tally of $350.8 million. In a distant second place was Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which debuted this week to the tune of $40.4 million.

The opening of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood gives Tarantino his best opening weekend, besting the $38 million Inglourious Basterds made in 2009. Tarantino also succeeded in knocking everyone’s favorite web-crawler from the second spot to third place as Spider-Man: Far from Home added another $12.2 million giving the super-hero sequel a four-week total of $344.5 million.

Similarly dropping from third to fourth place this week was Disney’s Toy Story 4, which added another $9.9 million to the bank over the weekend, giving the film a six-week cumulative total of $395.6 million. Meanwhile, the horror film Crawl also stumbled one pace down the box-office ladder to finish just behind the Disney behemoth in fifth place, bringing in $4 million to give it a three-week total of $31.5 million.

The Beatles-inspired Yesterday also dropped one spot, finishing in sixth with a $3 million weekend, giving the crowd-pleasing romantic fairy tale a five-week total of $63.3 million. Standing firm in the seventh spot on our list is the other live-action reimaging of a beloved Disney animated classic, Aladdin, which piled another $2.8 million to its pile of treasure, which now totals $345.9 million over ten weeks.

The Dave Bautista/Kumail Nanjiani starring Stuber, fell from sixth to eighth this weekend bringing in $1.7 million to give the comedy a three-week haul of $20.1 million. Dropping one spot since last week to ninth place is the horror sequel Annabelle Comes Home, which added $1.6 million over the weekend to give the film a five-week total of $69.7 million. Finally, the other new arrival in the top ten is the dramatic comedy The Farewell, which took in $1.6 million over the weekend to give the Awkwafina-starring vehicle a three-week total of $3.7 million.

Departing our top ten this week were two films: Midsommar, which leaves with a four-week total of $24.3 million; and, The Secret Life of Pets 2 which boasts an eight-week tally of $153.7 million.

Next weekend should see another shakeup of the box-office weekend of sorts as the latest spin-off of the “Fast & Furious” franchise, Hobbs & Shaw, debuts.

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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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