Box-Office Weekend: Scream Snatches Crown from Spidey

Hoping for a fifth week atop the box-office weekend, Spider-Man: No Way Home had to settle instead for a second-place finish as the film was soundly overtaken by newcomer Scream, which managed to secure $30.6 million during its opening weekend. The latest film in the “Scream” series succeeded in besting No Way Home by almost $9.8 million.

Despite losing first place to Scream, Spider-Man: No Way Home still added another $20.8 million over the weekend to easily lock in a second-place finish. With $698.7 million in five weeks, No Way Home is now the fifth most profitable domestic film of all time. Dropping one spot to finish in third place with $8.3 million was Sing 2, which now lays claim to a four-week total of $119.4 million. Also falling a spot to fourth place this weekend, was The 355, which managed to add $2.3 million over the weekend to give the action/adventure a two-week tally of $8.4 million. Last week’s fourth-place film, The King’s Man dropped to fifth place this weekend finishing just behind The 355 with $2.3 million. The film now sports a four-week total of $21.1 million.

Debuting in sixth place over the weekend was the animated Japanese film Ryû to sobakasu no hime (Belle). The film took in $1.6 million and some change. This was enough to best the Kurt Warner biopic, American Underdog, which added $1.6 million in its fourth week of release and dropped to a seventh-place finish over the weekend. The film now boasts a total of $21.1 million. Falling a spot to finish in eight place was the remake of West Side Story, which managed $948,000 in its sixth week of release, lifting its grand total to $33.8 million. Holding steady in ninth place was Licorice Pizza with $883,000, which gives the film an eight-week total of $9.6 million. Finally, plummeting from sixth to finish in tenth place this weekend was The Matrix Resurrections which added $815,000 to give the fourth film of the series a four-week ttoal of $35.8 million.

With Scream debuting on top of the box-office weekend, and the unexpected reappearance of Ryû to sobakasu no hime in the top ten, only two films departed this weekend’s list. After reappearing briefly in the top ten, Ghostbusters: Afterlife again leaves the top films of the weekend, but still sports an eight-week total of $126.1 million. Meanwhile, House of Gucci leaves the top ten after amassing $50.9 million over the past eight-weeks.

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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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