Box-Office Weekend: “Mission: Impossible” On Top

A new film stands on top of the box-office weekend as Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One debuted at number one, $29.2 million ahead of the second-place finisher.

With an opening weekend of $56.2 million, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One easily took the weekend at the box-office. Additionally, the film brought in a total of $80 million over its first week in release. Climbing a spot from last weekend to finish in second-place was Sound of Freedom which added $27.0 million over the weekend to bring the film’s two-week total to $85.5 million. Meanwhile, Insidious: The Red Door dropped two spots to land in third place this weekend adding $13.0 million to raise its overall two-week total to $58.1 million. Falling two spots to finish in fourth place with $12.0 million was Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. This gives the sequel a three-week total of $145.4 million. After claiming fourth-place last weekend, Elemental was relegated to fifth this weekend with $8.7 million, giving the film a five-week overall total of $125.3 million.

Landing in sixth-place, after finishing in fifth last weekend, was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, where it added $6.1 million, bringing its seven-week total to $368.8 million. Gaining a spot and finishing in seventh-place was Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as it brought in $3.4 million over the weekend to raise its six-week tally to $152.8 million. Swapping spots with that film was No Hard Feelings, which fell a spot to land in eighth-place with $3.3 million over the weekend. This gives the film a four-week total of $46.6 million. Dropping three spots to finish in ninth-place with $2.6 million over the weekend was Joy Ride. The film now lays dubious claim to a two-week total of $10.6 million. Finally, The Little Mermaid fell to tenth-place from ninth last weekend with $2.4 million earned this week, giving the film an eight-week total of $293.9 million.

Only one film was pushed out of the weekend box office as Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken was displaced after landing in tenth-place last week. The film departs the box-office weekend with a three-week total of $14.4 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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