Box-Office Weekend: Maverick Is Top Gun

Top Gun: Maverick soared above the competition to assume the place atop the box-office weekend. The Tom Cruise-led film bested the second-place finisher by $107.6 million.

Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick debuted with an impressive $124 million over its three-day opening weekend (an amount that will undoubtedly rise over Memorial Day). This relegated Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to second place with $16.4 million. This did allow the Marvel film to eclipse the $370 million mark in its fourth weekend of release. The second debut of the weekend, The Bob’s Burgers Movie brought in $12.6 million in its first weekend of release. Meanwhile, last weekend’s second-place film, Downton Abbey: A New Era was knocked down to fourth place with $5.9 million to show for its second weekend in release. The film now sports a total of $28.5 million. Similarly falling a few spots over the weekend was The Bad Guys, which dropped from third to fifth place with $4.6 million this weekend. The film now lays claim to a six-week tally of $81.4 million.

In sixth place, was last weekend’s fourth-place finisher, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 which added $2.5 million over the weekend to lift its eight-week total to $185.1 million. This pushed Everything Everywhere All at Once to seven place. With its $2.5 million over the weekend, the film lifted its ten-week tally to $56.8 million. Meanwhile, The Lost City climbed a spot to finish in eighth place over the weekend with $1.8 million. The Sandra Bullock film now sports a ten-week total of $101.7 million. All of this activity pushed last weekend’s fifth-place finisher, Men to ninth place this weekend with $1.2 million. This gives the film a two-week tally of $6 million. Finally, the third debut of the weekend, F3: Fun and Frustration took in $1 million over the last three days to land firmly in tenth place.

This weekend, three films were pushed out of the box-office weekend top ten. The seventh-place film last weekend, Fantastic Beats: The Secrets of Dumbledore leaves with a seven-week tally of $94.8 million. Meanwhile, after finishing in eighth-place last weekend, Firestarter departs the top ten with a three-week total of $8.1 million. Finally, The Northman takes its leave of the top ten after finishing in the final position last weekend and amassing a total of $33.6 million over six weeks.

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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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