Box-Office Weekend: Nope Negates Thor

The Mighty Thor was unseated by writer/director Jordan Peele’s latest film, Nope, which debuted atop the box-office weekend, besting the second-place film by almost double.

Receiving generally positive reviews, Nope worked the weekend to earn $44.0 million and claim the title of top film. In a somewhat distant second place was last weekend’s top film, Thor: Love and Thunder which added $22.1 million over the last three days to bring its grand total to $276.2 million for its first few weeks in release. The debut of Nope also pushed Minions: The Rise of Gru to third place with $17.7 million. This gives the animated film a four-week total of $297.9 million. Meanwhile, Where the Crawdads Sing also lost ground as it dropped a spot to finish in fourth place with $10.3 million over the weekend. The films now lays claim to a two-week tally of $38.3 million. Top Gun: Maverick fell to fifth place with $10.0 million. But, since the film now commands a nine-week total of $635.6 million, it is doubtful anyone is worried about the loss of ground at this point.

The Elvis Presley biopic, Elvis finished firmly in sixth place with $6.3 million over the weekend, lifting its five-week total to $118.4 million. This pushed Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank to sixth place as it brought in $3.9 million over the weekend. This gives the animated film a two-week total of $13.8 million. The horror offering, The Black Phone took in $3.5 million and finished in the eighth spot over the weekend. This gives the film a five-week total of $78.6 million. Meanwhile, Jurassic World Dominion added $3.0 million over the weekend as it fell to ninth place. The sequel now claims a seven-week total of $365.5 million. Finally, last weekend’s ninth-place finished, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, fell to the tenth spot in its second week of release with $1.4 million over the weekend, giving the film a total to date of $4.7 million.

For the first time in a long while, only one film was pushed from the box-office top ten over the weekend. Although it has amassed $117.1 million over its first six weeks in release, Lightyear was thrust out of the top ten due to the arrival on Nope.

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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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