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Posted October 1, 2023 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: PAW Patrol Claims Crown

After finishing atop the box-office weekend for the last three weeks, The Nun II failed to stave off the onslaught of new releases over the weekend, and seceded the number one spot to new release PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie by a margin of $5.9 million.

"PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie" posterDebuting in first place, with $23.0 million to show for its opening weekend, was the Paramount Pictures release PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie. Second place was claimed by fellow newcomer Saw X with $18.0 million brought in by the latest Lionsgate offering. Director Gareth Edwards’ new film, The Creator debuted in third place with $14.0 million earned for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. After finishing in first place for the last three weekends, The Nun II was pushed down to a fourth-place finish where it added $4.7 million to bring its total to $76.8 million for Warner Bros. after four weeks. The fourth and final debut of the weekend, The Blind took fifth place for Tread Lively with $5.0 million over the weekend.

In its third weekend, A Haunting in Venice fell three spots to finish in sixth place this weekend, where it added $3.8 million, to raise the film’s three-week total to $31.6 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Dropping a single spot to land in seventh place was Dumb Money which brought in $3.5 million for Sony Pictures Entertainment, giving the film a three-week total of $7.3 million. Dropping from fourth to eighth-place over the weekend was The Equalizer 3, which finished the weekend with $2.7 million to lift its five-week tally to $85.9 million for Columbia Pictures. Plummeting all the way from a second-place finish last weekend to ninth-place this weekend, was the Lionsgate offering Expend4bles with $2.5 million in its second weekend of release. The film now claims an overall total of $13.3 million. Finally, falling five spots to finish in tenth place over the weekend was juggernaut Barbie which brought in $1.4 million for Warner Bros. to raise the film’s overall total to $633.1 million.

Four films were forced from the top ten this weekend as there was a big shakeup for the second consecutive week. After finishing in sixth place last weekend, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 failed to crack the top ten this weekend, departing with a four-week total of $26.4 million for the Focus Features product. In its second weekend of release, NEON’s It Lives Inside didn’t make the cut and leaves the top ten with an overall total of $4.3 million after claiming seventh place last weekend. After finishing in ninth place last week, Blue Beetle bowed out of this weekend’s list but still sports a seven-week total of $71.0 million for Warner Bros., so all is not lost. After eleven weeks, the Universal Pictures release, Oppenheimer has amassed an overall total of $322.5 million, despite failing to make the top ten this weekend.

Weekend Box Office (September 29th – October 1st)

  1. PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie…$23.0 Million
  2. Saw X…$18.0 Million
  3. The Creator…$14.0 Million
  4. The Nun II…$4.7 Million
  5. The Blind…$4.1 Million
  6. A Haunting in Venice…$3.8 Million
  7. Dumb Money…$3.5 Million
  8. The Equalizer 3…$2.7 Million
  9. Expend4bles…$2.5 Million
  10. Barbie…$1.4 Million
Mike Tyrkus

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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