Box-Office Weekend: Moana Makes Waves

A new film has claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten. With a debut total $55.5 million over its closest rival, Moana 2 easily took control of the weekend box office.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw Moana 2 bring in a total of $135.5 million over the course of its opening weekend and a total of $221 million overall. This pushed last weekend’s top film, Wicked to second place where it took in $80 million for Universal Pictures, bringing the film’s two-week tally to $111.2 million. Meanwhile, Gladiator II fell from second to third place where it added $30.7 in its second weekend of release to give the Paramount Pictures product an overall total of $111.2 million. Red One also dropped a spot to land in fourth where it brought in $12.9 million, raising its three-week tally to $76.1 million. Lionsgate saw The Best Christmas Pageant Everclimb a spot to claim fifth place this weekend with $3.3 million, giving the film a four-week total of $32 million.

In its second weekend in release, the Angel Studios release 6 Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. crept into sixth place where it brought in $2.4 million, raising its overall total to $9.7 million. Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Releasing saw Venom: The Last Dance fall two spots to land in seventh place this weekend where it added $2.2 million to raise its six-week total to $137.9 million. This movement saw A24’s Heretic drop a spot and land in eight place with $956,797, giving the film a four-week total of $26.8 million. Universal Pictures’ The Wild Robot similarly dropped one spot, landing in ninth place where it took in $670,000 to raise its ten-week total to $142.5 million. After five weeks in release, Searchlight Pictures saw A Real Pain creep into the top ten in the final spot as the film brought in $665,000 to raise its overall total to $6.1 million.

Two films were pushed from the top ten this weekend as last week’s ninth- and tenth-place films both failed to make the cut this weekend. Focus Features saw Conclave bring in $30.1 million over the last six weeks before falling from the ninth spot this weekend. Meanwhile, After bringing in $68.7 million for Paramount Pictures during the course of the past seven weeks, Smile 2 drops from the top ten as well.

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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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