Box-Office Weekend: Mike Proves Magic Again

For the second consecutive weekend, there is a new film atop the box-office weekend as Magic Mike’s Last Dance debuted in the top spot, besting the second-place film by $1.3 million.

The latest (and perhaps final?) film in the “Magic Mike” saga, Magic Mike’s Last Dance made $8.2 million in its first weekend of release, which was enough to claim first place in the weekend’s top ten. Meanwhile, Avatar: The Way of Water crept up a spot to finish in second place with $6.9 million over the weekend, bringing its nine-week total to $646.9 million. Oddly enough, third place belonged to another James Cameron film, Titanic, which brought in $6.4 million over the weekend during its 25th anniversary release. Falling from second place last weekend to a fourth-place finish this week was 80 for Brady which brought in $6.0 million over the weekend to bring its two-week total to $25.0 million. Last weekend’s top film, M. Night Shayamalan’s Knock at the Cabin, was forced all that way down to a fifth-place finish this weekend with $5.5 million. The film now sports a two-week tally of $23.4 million.

Dropping two spots to finish in sixth place was Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, which added $5.5 million over the weekend to raise its eight-week total to $158.5 million. This pushed Tom Hanks and A Man Called Otto down to seventh place with $2.62 million over the weekend. This lifts the film’s seven-week total to $57.4 million. The only film holding steady from last weekend was Missing, which remained locked in eighth-place with $2.60 million. This brings the film’s four-week total to $26.6 million. Falling a couple spots from seventh to ninth was M3GAN which added $2.4 million over the weekend to lift the film’s six-week total to $90.9 million. Finally, in its fifth week of release, Plane makes a return to the top ten in the final spot with $1.2 million. This gives the film a five-week cumulative total of $30.8 million.

Three titles were pushed from the top ten this box-office weekend as BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas feel from the list after claiming fifth place last weekend. Last weekend’s ninth- and tenth-place films (Homecoming and Pathaan respectively) were also pushed from the top ten over the 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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