Box-Office Weekend: Live Action Dragon is #1

A new film has claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend as the live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon debuted $68.2 million ahead of the second-place film.

Universal Pictures International enjoyed an $83.7 million debut from How to Train Your Dragon as the film easily claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend. The film easily bested Lilo & Stitch which took in $15.5 million over the weekend, dropping to second place, but bringing its four-week total to $366.4 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Meanwhile, A24 saw its Materialists debut in third place with $12.0 million over the weekend. This pushed Paramount Pictures International’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning down to fourth place where it added $10.3 million, raising its four-week total to $166.3 million. Falling three spots to land in fifth place this weekend, Lionsgate’s From the World of John Wick: Ballerina took in $9.4 million to bring the film’s two-week tally to $41.8 million.

Also dropping three spots over the last three days was Sony Pictures Releasing’s Karate Kid: Legends which claimed sixth place with $5.0 million this weekend. This brings the film’s three-week total to $44.2 million. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. saw Final Destination: Bloodlines fall two spots to land in seventh place this weekend where it added $3.9 million for the studio to give the film a five-week total of $130.6 million. Focus Features also saw its release of The Phoenician Scheme drop two spots to claim eighth place this weekend with $3.1 million, giving the film a three-week total of $12.8 million. Neon saw its release of The Life of Chuck crack the top ten in its second week of release (and first in wide release) as it finished in ninth place with $2.1 million, bringing its two-week total to $2.4 million for the studio. Finally, in its ninth week of release, the Warner Bros. product Sinners fell from ninth to tenth place with $1.5 million taken in over the weekend, giving the film an overall total of $275.5 million.

Another three films were pushed from the top ten this weekend. After claiming seventh place last week, A24’s Bring Her Back couldn’t hold onto a spot in the top ten, but still managed to bring in $17.7 million during its three weeks in release. After two weeks in release and an eighth-place finish last weekend, the GKIDS release Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye also departs the top ten, but with an overall total of $5.1 million. Finally, after seven weeks in release, Thunderbolts* falls from the top ten with a cumulative total of $188.8 million earned for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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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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