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Box-Office Weekend: Marvel Back On Top

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the third weekend in a row, a new film sits atop the box-office weekend. This weekend, Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania easily took top honors as it bested the second-place film by an astonishing $97.9 million.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania debuted with $104.0 million to show for its first three days in release as it handily took first place. Holding steady in a very distant second-place was Avatar: The Way of Water with $6.1 million. This brings the James Cameron film to an astounding ten-week total of $657.1 million. These two behemoths pushed last weekend’s top film, Magic Mike’s Last Dance, to third place with $5.4 million over the weekend, giving the film a two-week total of $18.0 million. Climbing two spots to finish in fourth place over the weekend was Puss in Boots: The Last Wish which, in its ninth week of release, brought in $5.3 million to raise its overall total to $166.1 million. Standing pat in fifth place was Knock at the Cabin which added $3.9 million over the weekend, bringing its three-week total to $30.4 million.

Falling two spots from last weekend to finish in sixth-place was 80 for Brady as the female-driven comedy added $3.6 million over the weekend to give it a three-week total of $32.2 million. Meanwhile, the re-release of Titanic managed to stick around in the top ten for another week, despite falling four spots to land in seventh-place this weekend with $2.3 million. This gives the re-released film a two-week total of $12.4 million. The second debut of the weekend, Marlowe, landed in eighth-place with $1.9 million over the last three days and a first-week overall total of $2.7 million. Dropping a spot to finish in ninth this weekend was Missing which added $1.7 million over the weekend to give it a five-week tally of $29.7 million. Finally, Tom Hanks and A Man Called Otto took the final spot of the top ten with $1.6 million this weekend, giving the film an eight-week total of $60.6 million.

The weekend box office saw two films pushed from the top ten over the last three days. After amassing a seven-week total of $93.4 million, M3GAN was unable to hold onto its ninth-place finish from last weekend. Similarly, Plane took off from the top ten this weekend after ringing up a six-week total of $31.9 million.

Weekend Box Office (February 17th – February 19th)

  1. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania…$104.0 Million
  2. Avatar: The Way of Water…$6.1 Million
  3. Magic Mike’s Last Dance…$5.4 Million
  4. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish…$5.3 Million
  5. Knock at the Cabin…$3.9 Million
  6. 80 for Brady…$3.6 Million
  7. Titanic…$2.3 Million
  8. Marlowe…$1.9 Million
  9. Missing…$1.7 Million
  10. A Man Called Otto…$1.6 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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