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Box-Office Weekend: Shazam! Dominates Again

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the second consecutive week, Shazam! held on tightly to the top spot on the Box-Office Weekend leaderboard. This week, the film’s second in release, the latest film in the DC Extended Universe, added $25.1 million to give it a two-week total of $94.9 million. The Zachary Levi-led film continues to perform will internationally as well, adding $35.9 million to give it a global two-week total of approximately $258.8 million.

The next two films on the countdown are two of the four new entries in the top ten this weekend. The first, the comedy Little, debuted in second place with $15.5 million. The second, the new version of Hellboy, brought in $12 million despite genuinely terrible reviews (the film currently sports a 14% rating on RottenTomatoes). Dropping from second place last weekend is the horror film remake Pet Sematary, which added another $10 million to give it a two-week total of $41.1 million. Just behind that, with $9.2 million was the live-action version of Dumbo which now sports a three-week total of $89.9 million.

Just outside of the top five, in sixth place, is Captain Marvel, which finished its sixth week of release bringing in $8.6 million over the weekend to lift its ultimate tally to $386.5 million. Jordan Peele’s horror film Us, added $6.9 million in its fourth week of release to land it in seventh place and bring its grand total to $163.5 million.

The romantic drama After, debuted in the eighth spot of our top ten with $6.2 million in its first week of release. Finishing just behind it with $5.8 million was the animated comedy Missing Link, which also debuted this week.

Finally, the Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell starring drama The Best of Enemies, took in $2 million in its second week of release, falling from the sixth spot to the final spot on our list, giving it a two-week total of $8.1 million.

Leaving the top ten this week are: Five Feet Apart, Unplanned, Wonder Park, and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Next week will see the release of the “inspirational” Breakthrough from Fox and the Disneynature documentary Penguins, both of which line up to be in direct competition with the horror film The Curse of La Llorona.

Weekend Box Office (April 12th – April 14th)

  1. Shazam!…$25.1 Million
  2. Little…$15.5 Million
  3. Hellboy…$12 Million
  4. Pet Sematary…$10 Million
  5. Dumbo…$9.2 Million
  6. Captain Marvel…$8.6 Million
  7. Us…$6.9 Million
  8. After…$6.2 Million
  9. Missing Link…$5.8 Million
  10. The Best of Enemies…$2 Million

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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