Box-Office Weekend: No Way Down for Spider-Man

For the second week in a row the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: No Way Home held the top spot of the box-office weekend. The film made $57.7 million more that the second-place film. No Way Home now boasts a two-week tally of $467.3 million. This solidifies the film’s ranking as the highest grossing film (domestically) of the year, besting Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings by $242.8 million and counting. 

After enjoying a $253 million opening weekend, Spider-Man: No Way Home brought in another $81.5 million over the weekend, easily besting second-place finisher Sing 2 which debuted earning $23.8 million for the weekend and $41.0 over its first full week in release. Debuting in third place was the fourth film in the Matrix series, The Matrix Resurrections which made $12.0 million over the weekend and $22.5 in its first week. The long-delayed sequel The King’s Man finally debuted and took fourth place over the weekend with $6.4 million and $10.0 million for its first full week of release. The Kurt Warner biopic, American Underdog debuted in the fifth spot over the weekend with $6.2 million in its first week of release. 

Falling three spots to finish in sixth place over the weekend was Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story which took in $2.8 million over the weekend giving the film a three-week total of $23.9 million. Enjoying a boost from a wider release, Licorice Pizza cracked the top ten in its fifth week of release and landed in the seventh spot with $2.3 million. Meanwhile, A Journal for Jordan made its debut in the top ten at number eight in its first week of release with $2.2 million. The animated Encanto plummeted from last week’s second-place finish to ninth place this weekend with $2.0 million. This gives the film a five-week total of $88.3 million. Finally, the sixth debut in the top ten this weekend, 83, finished in the tenth spot with $1.8 million to show for its first week in release. 

An astounding seven films we chased from the top ten this weekend. Despite boasting a six-week total of $120.5 million, Ghostbusters: Afterlife could only conjure $1.27 million over the weekend and feel from fourth place to nowhere in the top ten. After finishing in fifth place in its debut last week, Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley failed to crack to the top ten and departs with $5.4 million over its first two weeks in release. House of Gucci dropped from the sixth spot and leaves the top ten with $47.2 million over five weeks. Last week’s seventh-place finisher, the Indian film Pushpa: The Rise – Part 1, also departed the top ten after lifting its total take to $1.3 million last weekend. Marvel’s Eternals dropped from eighth place in its eighth week in release and now sports a total of $164.5 million. Falling from the ninth spot was Clifford the Big Red Dog, which leaves the top ten with a nine-week total of $48.8 million. Finally, the latest (last, hopefully) film in the long-running “Resident Evil” series, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, dropped out of the top ten after finishing in the tenth spot last week with a seven-week total of $16.9 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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