Box Office Weekend: Pirates 5 Easily Wins Holiday Box Office

As pretty much everyone expected, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales planted the Jolly Roger atop the box office and took no prisoners, bringing in $62.2 million over the holiday weekend (not including the actual holiday of course). The fifth film in the Pirates series easily bested second-place finisher Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 while also bringing in an estimated $208.4 million internationally. The series has easily proven it still retains its sea (and revenue earning) legs.

The aforementioned Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 brought in an additional $19.9 million, bringing its domestic gross in just four weeks to $333.2 million. Meanwhile, the international numbers for the film have soared to over $450 million, bringing its overall total to a staggering $783.3 million, which surpasses the first Guardians of the Galaxy. Dwayne Johnson and Baywatch easily took third place with $18.1 million, bringing the latest television-to-film adaptation’s domestic total to $22.7 million. Alien: Covenant dropped a few spots from first to fourth this week adding another $10.5 million to its two-week total of $57.3 million.

Everything, Everything continues to do solid, though not spectacular business, bringing in another $6.2 million this week. Meanwhile, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul seems to be running out of steam a bit falling from last week’s fifth spot to this week’s sixth with $4.4 million (about $3 million less than it made last weekend). The Goldie Hawn/Amy Schumer comedy Snatched fell from fourth to seventh, but more importantly pulled in $3 million less than it did last week. It looks as though the film’s time in the top ten might prove short lived.

The Arthurian retelling King Arthur: Legend of the Sword added another $3.2 million to raise its three-week total to just under $34 million. Meanwhile, the animated film The Boss Baby added $1.7 million, bringing its impressive domestic total to $169 million. Finally, Beauty and the Beast took in another $1.6 million to bring its domestic total to a whopping $500.6 million. Though the film may be living on borrowed time in the top ten, it has easily become the film to beat this year.

While The Fate of the Furious dropped out of the top ten this week, it did make enough to become only the sixth film in history to bring in over $1 billion via the international box office.

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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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