Box-Office Weekend: Morbius Takes a Bite

As quickly as The Lost City claimed to top of the box-office weekend seven days ago, it was displaced this weekend by newcomer Morbius by $24.3 million.

During its debut weekend, the Jared Leto vehicle brought in $39.1 million as Morbius finished in a solid first place despite not-so-positive reviews. Displaced to the second spot was last week’s top film, The Lost City which garnered $14.8 million and lifted its two-week tally to $54.6 million. The Batman, despite dropping a spot to third, still took in $10.8 million in its fifth weekend of release to raise its total to $349 million (moving it up ten spaces to #58 on the list of top domestic grosses of all time. Meanwhile, holding the fourth spot of the top ten was Uncharted which added $3.6 million over the weekend to list its seven-week total to $138.9 million. Similarly, remaining steadfast in the fifth spot was Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 as it added $2 million to its coffers to raise its three-week total to $29.7 million.

Plummeting from third place to sixth this weekend was last week’s newcomer RRR (Rise Roar Revolt) which managed to add another $1.6 million over the last three days to raise the film’s two-week total to $11.1 million. Moving up one spot to land in seventh place was Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home which added another $1.4 million to lift its sixteen-week total to $802.7 million as it moves ever so closer to Avengers: Endgame and second place on the list of top lifetime grosses. Meanwhile, last week’s seventh-place finisher, Dog, dropped to the eighth spot earning $1.3 million over the weekend. The Channing Tatum vehicle now boasts a seven-week total of $60.1 million. Falling three spots to finish in ninth-place was the horror film X which dropped from the sixth spot last week but still added $1 million over the weekend to raise its three-week total to $10.4 million. Finally, in its second week of release, Everything Everywhere All at Once cracked the top ten with $1 million over the weekend, finishing just behind X.

Two films left the box-office weekend top ten over the last three days. Sing 2 dropped from the ninth spot to fall off the list for the first time in quite a long while. The film still sports a fifteen-week tally of $161.7 million so there probably aren’t too many distraught by the no show in the top ten. Similarly, Infinite Storm departed the top ten in its second week of release with a grand total of $1.4 million to show for its troubles.

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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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