Box-Office Weekend: Rampage Rages Against the Box Office

Dwayne Johnson returned to theaters with Rampage and snagged the top spot over the box-office weekend with a $34.5 million opening. That just beat last week’s champ, A Quiet Place, by roughly $2 million as it brought in an estimated $32.6 million. This gives director John Krasinski’s horror film an impressive two-week total of $99.6 million.

Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare finished in third place with $19.1 million for its opening weekend. Though considerably less than the two films ahead of it, it does prove that audiences still enjoy a good scare now and then. Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One fell from second place to fourth with $11.2 million, bringing its three-week domestic total to $114.6 million. The comedy Blockers dropped two spots this week, from third to fifth, earning $10.3 million (raising its two-week total to $36.9 million).

While Marvel’s Black Panther may have also fallen a few spots this weekend (from fourth to sixth), it still brought in $5.3 million, bringing its record-setting domestic total to $673.8 million. As we wrote last week, Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs opened nationwide this week, and the additional locations allowed it to jump from the tenth to the seventh spot as it took in $5.0 million, giving it a four-week tally of $18.5 million.

Falling from fifth to eighth place was the Dennis Quaid led family drama I Can Only Imagine, which finished with $3.8 million, giving it a five-week cumulative effort of $75.0 million. Tyler Perry’s Acrimony continued to tumble down the top ten. This week, it dropped from sixth to ninth place with $3.7 million as it looks headed out of the top ten next week.

Finally, the Ted Kennedy inspired drama, Chappaquiddick brought in another $3.0 million, which was good enough to raise its two-week total to $11.0 million and give it sole possession of tenth place on our list. A couple films took their leave of the top ten this weekend after decent stays for the both. Sherlock Gnomes departs the list after amassing a three-week total of $37 million. Similarly, Pacific Rim: Uprising departs after a disappointing three-week run that saw it bring in just $57.5 million. Next week sees the arrival of Amy Schumer’s latest film I Feel Pretty and the sequel to Super Troopers, the aptly titled Super Troopers 2.

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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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