Box-Office Weekend: Red One Stops Venom

After three weeks atop the box-office weekend, Venom: The Last Dance was dethroned by Red One by a margin of $26.6 million.

In its first weekend of wide release, Red One brought in $34.0 million and took control of the box-office weekend, finishing in first place well ahead of any competition. After claiming the top spot the last three weekends, Sony Pictures Releasing’s Venom: The Last Dance dropped to second place where it brought in $7.4 million over the last three days. Still, the film’s four-week total is a robust $127.6 million. Meanwhile, Lionsgate saw The Best Christmas Pageant Ever fall to third place where it took in $5.4 million, bringing its two-week total to $20.1 million for the studio. Heretic also fell a spot to claim fourth place with $5.2 million, giving the A24 release a two-week tally of $20.4 million. Universal Pictures saw The Wild Robot drop from fourth to fifth-place this weekend as it added $4.3 million, bringing its eight-week total to $137.8 million.

In its fifth week of release, Smile 2 dropped from fifth to sixth place, where it added $3.1 million, bring its overall total to $65.7 million for Paramount Pictures. Focus Features saw Conclave bring in $2.9 million is its fourth weekend of release as it fell one spot to seventh place while lifting its overall total to $26.6 million. The second debut of the weekend, Hello, Love, Again landed in eighth place with $2.33 million taken in over the weekend, which was just enough to edge out Searchlight Pictures’ A Real Pain which cracked the top ten with $2.3 million this weekend in its third week of release – giving the film an overall total of $3.0 million. Finally, Neon saw Anora drop from the seventh to the tenth spot this weekend where it brought in $1.8 million for the studio, raising its five-week total to $10.5 million.

Again, three films fell from this week’s top ten as last weekend’s eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-place films were all pushed out of this weekend’s list. After three weeks in release, the Sony Pictures Releasing product Here takes a bow after bringing in $11.6 million for the studio. Meanwhile, A24’s We Live in Time took in a total of $23.9 million for the studio over the last six weeks. Finally, after five weeks in release, Terrifier 3 managed to make $54.1 million.

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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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