Box-Office Weekend: Robot Bests Beetlejuice

A new film took control of the box-office weekend this week as The Wild Robot managed to unseat Beetlejuice Beetlejuice by a $19 million margin.

Universal Pictures saw The Wild Robot debut atop this weekend’s top ten with $35.0 million. This was more than enough to unseat Beetlejuice Beetlejuice which brought in $16.0 million for Warner Bros. in its fourth weekend of release. The “Beetlejuice” sequel now sports an overall total of $250.1 million despite succumbing to newcomer The Wild Robot. Last weekend’s second-place film, Transformers One fell to third place where it brought in $9.3 million over the weekend, raising its two-week total to $39.2 million for Paramount Pictures. The second debut of the weekend, Devara Part 1 landed in fourth place with $5.6 million brought in this weekend. This pushed last week’s third-place film, Universal Pictures’ Speak No Evil to fifth place this weekend where it added $4.3 million over the weekend to bring its three-week total to $28.1 million.

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis debuted in sixth place over the weekend with $4.0 million. Last weekend’s fifth-place film, Deadpool & Wolverine dropped two spots to seventh place where it added $2.7 million over the weekend. This brings the ten-week total for the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product to $631.3 million. Meanwhile, My Old Ass managed to crack the top ten in its first weekend of released with $2.22 million over the weekend and an overall take of 2.9 million for its first three weeks in release. After claiming fourth place last weekend, Never Let Go dropped five spots to land in ninth this weekend where it added $2.2 million to allow the Lionsgate Films offering to finish just behind My Old Ass. Finally, after landing in sixth place last weekend, the MUBI offering of The Substance fell four spots to a tenth-place finish this weekend where it brought in $1.8 million to raise its two-week total to $6.9 million.

For a second consecutive weekend, four films were pushed out of the weekend box-office top ten. The seventh-, eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-place films from that weekend were all displaced in favor of newer films. Am I Racist? departs leaving SDG Releasing $11.1 million richer. After four weeks in release, ShowBiz Direct managed to squeeze $26.5 million out of Reagan. Trafalgar Releasing got $2.6 million from Jung Kook: I Am Still before it took its final bow and left the top ten. Finally, after seven weeks, Alien: Romulus leaves Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures $104.7 million richer than when it first entered the top ten.

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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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