Box-Office Weekend: Marvel Feels Fantastic

The Man of Steel could only stay atop the box-office weekend top ten for two weeks as Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps debuted over the weekend, bringing in $93.1 million than the last son of Krypton did.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw its latest offering from Marvel, The Fantastic Four: First Steps debut in first place with total of $118 million, which ended up being $93.1 million more than second-place finisher Superman which was knocked down to second place by Marvel’s first family. In its third week of release, Superman took in $24.9 million for Warner Bros., to bring its overall total to $289.5 million. Also falling a spot was Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World: Rebirth which ended up in third place with $13 million and a four-week total of $301.5 million. Climbing one spot to claim fourth place was F1: The Movie as it added $6.2 million over the weekend to bring its five-week total to $165.6 million for Warner Brothers. This pushed Smurfs from fourth to a fifth-place finish this weekend, where it made $5.4 million for Paramount Pictures International to give it a two-week total of $22.8 million.

Perhaps the furthest fall of the weekend was Sony Pictures Releasing’s I Know What You Did Last Summer which dropped from third all the way to sixth where it took in $5.1 million in its second weekend of release, giving the film an overall total of $23.6 million. Meanwhile, Universal Pictures International saw How to Train Your Dragon fall one spot from sixth to seventh place where it added $2.8 million to bring its seven-week total to $257 million for the studio. Similarly, A24’s Eddington fell from seventh to eighth as it brought in $1.7 million over the weekend to raise its two-week total to $8.1 million. Sony Pictures Classics saw its release Oh, Hi! debut in ninth place with $1.1 million over the weekend. Just behind that, with $1.0 million was Lionsgate’s The Home which took the final spot of the top ten.

For the second consecutive weekend, the eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-place films from the previous week were pushed out of the top ten by newcomers to the list. After six weeks in release, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has to settle with a $71.5 million total for Elio as the film falls from the top ten. With a ten-week total of $420.2 million (and also a Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product), Lilo & Stitch also failed to make this weekend’s top ten list. Finally, after six weeks in release, the Sony Pictures Releasing offering of 28 Years Later drops from the top ten with an overall total of $70 million.

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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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