Box-Office Weekend: “Smile” Holds Top Spot

As it did last weekend, Smile again finished on top of the box-office weekend. Although it’s $6.1 million margin of victory this weekend was considerably less than the $14.7 million of seven days ago.

The horror film Smile added $17.6 million over the weekend to raise its two-week total to $49.9 million. Meanwhile, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile debuted in second place with $11.5 million, just $6.1 million behind Smile. The second of three debuts on the top ten this weekend, Amsterdam finished in third place with $6.5 million, just $5 million behind Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. Last weekend’s third-place film, The Woman King dropped a spot to finish in fourth-place this weekend with $5.3 million. This gives the film a four-week total of $54.1 million. After finishing in second-place last weekend, Don’t Worry Darling fell three spots to land in fifth place with $3.5 million over the weekend. The film now lays claim to a three-week total of $38.5 million.

This pushed the re-release of Avatar from fifth to sixth place as the film added $2.6 million to lift its three-week re-release total to $23.3 million. Meanwhile, Barbarian held steady in seventh place with $2.18 million earned over the weekend. This brings the film’s five-week total to $36.5 million. Bros dropped from fourth to eighth place, taking in $2.15 million over the weekend. The film now holds a two-week tally of $8.9 million. The horror film Terrifier 2 managed to creep into the top ten and finish in ninth place by bringing in $825,000 in its debut over the weekend. Finally, holding steady in the tenth spot this weekend, and adding $800,000 to bring its twenty-week total to a staggering $714.7 million was Top Gun: Maverick.

Again, three films were thrust from the top ten. In only its second week of release, Ponniyin Selvan: Part One failed to climb back into the top ten, yet still laid claim to a two-week tally of $4.3 million. After ten weeks, Bullet Train from Sony Pictures Entertainment, leaves with an overall total of $102.4 million. Finally, Warner Bros. can’t be too disappointed with DC League of Super-Pets amassing $92.5 million over eleven weeks before taking leave of 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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