Box-Office Weekend: Predator Shows No Regrets

Box Office Weekend

Yet again, a new film adorns the top spot of the box-office weekend as Predator: Badlands displaced the top film from last week by a margin of $32.9 million.

“Predator: Badlands” posterIn its first weekend of release, Predator: Badlands easily took over the box-office weekend top ten and delivered a first-place finish to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the amount of $40.0 million. This proved more than enough to push last week’s top film, Regretting You, to second place where it made $7.1 million for Paramount Pictures International – giving the film a three-week total of $38.6 million. Meanwhile, Universal Pictures saw Black Phone 2 drop from second- to third-place this weekend where it added $5.3 million to bring its four-week total to $70.1 million. Fourth place saw the debut of the Amazon MGM Studios release Sarah’s Oil with $4.5 million. This proved just enough to best the Sony Pictures Classics offering of Nuremberg which debuted in fifth place with $4.1 million.

Falling three spots to land in sixth place this weekend, Sony Pictures Releasing’s Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc took in $3.6 million over the weekend to raise its three-week total to $38.0 million for the studio. Meanwhile, Focus Features saw Bugonia fall two spots in its third week of release to claim seventh place with $3.5 million, bringing the film’s overall total to $12.3 million. In the eighth spot of this weekend’s top ten, the MUBI release of Die My Love debuted with an opening weekend of $2.8 million. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw its Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere drop two spots to land in ninth place where it added $2.2 million over the weekend to lift its three-week total to $20.4 million. Finally, that same studio enjoyed a tenth-place finish for Tron: Ares that brought in $1.8 million for the film to raise its five-week total to $71.3 million.

Four films were once again forced out of the weekend box-office top ten over the last three days. After eleven weeks in release, KPop Demon Hunters has brought in a total of $24.3 million, but could not repeat its fourth-place finish last weekend. Meanwhile, the fortieth anniversary re-release of Back to the Future dropped out of the top ten after a sixth-place finish seven days ago. The re-release did manage to bring in a total of $7.3 million for Universal Pictures International though. After a ninth-place finish in its second week of release, Briarcliff Entertainment’s Stitch Head couldn’t remain in the top ten and instead settled for a two-week total of $3.9 million. Finally, Lionsgate’s Good Fortune dropped out of the top ten with a four-week total of $16.1 million after landing in the final spot last weekend.

Weekend Box Office (November 7th – November 9th)

    1. Predator: Badlands…$40.0 Million
    2. Regretting You…$7.1 Million
    3. Black Phone 2…$5.3 Million
    4. Sarah’s Oil…$4.5 Million
    5. Nuremberg…$4.1 Million
    6. Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc…$3.6 Million
    7. Bugonia…$3.5 Million
    8. Die My Love…$2.8 Million
    9. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere…$2.2 Million
    10. Tron: Ares…$1.8 Million
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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