Box-Office Weekend: Mean Girls Repeats

Mean Girls held onto the top spot of the box-office weekend for a second consecutive week, again slightly besting The Beekeeper by a mere $3.2 million.

In its second weekend of release, Mean Girls brought in $11.7 million for Paramount Pictures, giving the film a two-week tally of $50.0 million. Meanwhile, The Beekeeper held onto second-place with $8.5 million in its second weekend as well. This gives that film an overall total of $31.1 million. Also holding steady from last weekend was Wonka which held onto third place with $6.4 million for Warner Bros. in its sixth weekend of release, lifting its overall total to $187.2 million. Last weekend’s fourth- and fifth-place films swapped places as Anyone But You took fourth with $5.4 million – bringing its five-week total to $64.2 million for Columbia Pictures – and Migration landed in fifth place with $5.3 million for Universal – giving it a five-week total of $94.7 million.

Elsewhere, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom managed to tread water and hold onto sixth place with $3.7 million. This gives the Warner Bros. product a five-week total of $114.2 million. Bleecker Street Media enjoyed a debut in seventh place for I.S.S. where it brought in $3.0 million for the studio in its first weekend of release. Meanwhile, the Universal Pictures International offering Night Swim fell a spot to land in eighth place where it added $2.7 million to lift its three-week total to $23.8 million. Also falling a spot to ninth place was The Boys in the Boat which took in $2.5 million in its four week in release, giving it an overall total of $43.9 million. Finally, clawing its way back into the top ten, Poor Things added $2.0 million this weekend to bring the Searchlight Pictures’ product seven-week tally to $20.4 million.

Finally, only two films were forced from the top ten this weekend as last week’s ninth- and tenth-place films failed to chart this weekend. After two weeks, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s The Book of Clarence departs with a total of $4.7 million. Meanwhile, The Iron Claw still managed to bring in $31.5 million for A24 over the last five weeks despite falling out of the top ten this 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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