Box-Office Weekend: “Little Mermaid” on Top

A new film claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend as The Little Mermaid debuted at number one, finishing $72.5 million ahead of the film in second place.

Earning $95.5 million over the course of its opening weekend, The Little Mermaid easily took control of the weekend box office. In a distant second place was last weekend’s top film, Fast X with $23.0 million to show for the weekend. Of course, the film does sport an overall total of $100.0 million so all is not lost. Meanwhile, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 fell to third place in its fourth weekend of release with $20.0 million to bring its overall total to $299.4 million. Dropping a spot to fourth place, The Super Mario Bros. Movie made $6.3 million over the weekend, bringing the film’s eight-week total to $558.9 million. Debuting in fifth place, with $4.6 million over the weekend, and an overall total of $7.9 million, was The Machine.

Meanwhile, About My Father debuted in sixth place with $4.3 million in its first weekend of release. Seventh place was taken by Kandahar which earned $2.4 million over the course of its opening weekend. The final debut of the weekend, You Hurt My Feelings, claimed eighth-place with $1.4 million over the weekend. Falling all the way from fifth-place last weekend to ninth this week, Evil Dead Rise brought in $1.1 million and managed to elevate its six-week total to $66.2 million. Finally, after finishing in fourth place last weekend, Book Club: The Next Chapter dropped all the way to tenth this week with $920,000. This gives the film a three-week total of $16.1 million.

For the first time in a very long while, the entire bottom half of the box-office top ten were supplanted with five newcomers. This weekend saw the departure of John Wick: Chapter 4 from the top ten as last weekend’s sixth-place film failed to make the cut this weekend. The film departs with a ten-week total of $186.4 million. After taking seventh-place last weekend, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret failed to make the top ten and instead leaves with a five-week total of $19.6 million. Meanwhile, after amassing $4.4 million over the last two weeks, Hypnotic too departs the top ten after finishing in eighth-place last weekend. With $6.1 million earned over the last three weeks, Love Again failed to make the top ten this weekend after claiming the penultimate spot last week. Finally, with an eight-week tally of $93.1 million, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves bows out of the top ten after finishing in the final spot last weekend.

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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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