Box-Office Weekend—Maze Runner: The Death Cure Debuts on Top

Bringing in an estimated $23.5 million, Maze Runner: The Death Cure took the top spot at the box office this weekend. While the film did well, it’s opening was still a bit disappointing given this installment’s budget. Finishing in second-place was last week’s top film, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle with $16.4 million. The film has made an astonishing $338.1 million in its first six weeks of release, passing last year’s Spider-Man: Homecoming ($334.2 million).

After expanding nationwide this weekend, Hostiles managed to land in third place with $10.2 million. Hugh Jackman and The Greatest Showman swapped spots with Steven Spielberg’s The Post to finish in fourth place with $9.5 million (and a six-week total of $126.5 million). The Post has brought in $58.5 million during its six-week run, including $8.9 million this weekend.

The Chris Hemsworth-led action film, 12 Strong fell from second to sixth, but still brought in $8.6 million, raising its two-week total to $29.8 million, but still perhaps signaling that a fall from the top ten might not be too far off. The action, crime drama Den of Thieves similarly fell from third place last week to seventh this week with $8.4 million (and a two-week total of $28.5 million).

Guillermo del Toro’s latest film, The Shape of Water was obviously helped by the slew of awards nominations heaped upon last week as it vaulted into the eighth spot with $5.7 million. Finishing just ahead of the slowly fading Paddington 2, which brought in $5.6 million as it fell from the sixth to the ninth spot. Closing out this week’s top ten, is the Bollywood offering Padmaavat, which brought in $4.3 million. Since next week boasts only one new release, the horror film Winchester, starring Helen Mirren, the top ten doesn’t look to fluctuate too much over Super Bowl 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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