Box-Office Weekend: Moana Dominates Again

Moana 2 held the number one spot of the box-office weekend for a second consecutive week by a margin of $17.1 million, despite five newcomers cracking the top ten and displacing several mainstays.

In its second weekend of release, Moana 2 brought in $52 million for Walt Disney Studios Motions Pictures, lifting the film’s two-week total to $300 million. Meanwhile, Universal Studios saw Wicked cling to second-place for another week with a solid intake of $34.9 million. This gives the film a three-week total of $320.5 million. Third place remained unchanged as well as Gladiator II held its ground with $12.5 million over the weekend earned for Paramount Pictures, giving the film a three-week tally of $132.7 million. Debuting in fourth place was the AA Films release Pushpa: The Rule – Part 2 which brought in $9.3 million for the studio over its first weekend in release. This dropped Red One from fourth- to fifth-place this weekend as it took in $7 million over the weekend, raising its four-week total to $84.8 million.

The re-release of Paramount Pictures’ Interstellar claimed sixth place by taking in $4.4 million over the weekend. Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Releasing enjoyed the debut of Solo Leveling: ReAwakening in seventh place where it managed to bring in $2.4 million over its first weekend in release. Similarly, A24 enjoyed the debut of Y2K in the eighth spot, where it brought in $2.11 million for the studio over its first weekend. This was enough to force the Fathom Event release of For King + Country: A Drummer Boy Christmas to ninth-place where it brought in $2.05 million over the weekend – and an overall total of $2.6 million. Finally, Lionsgate saw The Best Christmas Pageant Ever fall five spots to land in tenth place this weekend where it brought in $1.5 million, giving the film a five-week total of $34.5 million.

This weekend saw fives films thrust from the top ten as last weekend’s sixth- through tenth-place films all drop from this weekend’s list. After three weeks, Angel Studios saw Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. bring in a total of $11.3 million before being pushed from the top ten. Meanwhile, Venom: The Last Dance had made Sony Pictures Releasing $139.1 million over the last seven weeks before it was also forced from the top ten. After five weeks in release, the A24 product Heretic can now report a total of $27.5 million for the studio. Universal Pictures can’t be too disappointed with the $142.8 million that The Wild Robot has generated for them over the last eleven weeks, despite not cracking the top ten this weekend. Finally, after amassing a total of $6.7 million for Searchlight Pictures over the last six week, A Real Pain has also departed the top ten.

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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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