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Box-Office Weekend: “Smile,” You’re the Number One Film

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

A new film took control of the box-office weekend as Smile debuted in first place by a margin of $14.7 million, pushing last weekend’s top film to a distant second place.

The debut of the horror film Smile brought in $22.0 million over its first weekend in release. This was easily enough to best the top film last weekend, Don’t Worry Darling, which was relegated to a second-place finish with $7.3 million over the weekend. This raises the film’s two-week tally to $32.8 million. Meanwhile, last weekend’s second-place film, The Woman King, was similarly dropped a spot to finish in third place with $7.0 million over the weekend. The Viola Davis film now sports a three-week total of $46.7 million. The second debut of the weekend, Bros, took fourth place with a solid opening that brought in $4.8 million. All of this activity pushed the re-release of Avatar to a fifth-place finish over the weekend with $4.7 million. The film now has a two-week take of $18.6 million added to its staggering initial release numbers.

Debuting in sixth-place over the weekend was Ponniyin Selvan: Part One with a $4.0 million opening weekend. Last weekend’s fourth-place film, Barbarian, dropped several spots to finish in seventh with $2.8 million over the last three days. This gives the film a four-week total of $33.1 million. Last week’s seventh-place film fell one spot as Bullet Train finished in eighth place with $1.4 million over the weekend. This brought the film’s nine-week tally to $101.3 million. Meanwhile, the heroes of Dc League of Super-Pets lost a spot and finished in ninth-place with $1.3 million. The animated film still lays claim to a ten-week total of $91.7 million though. Finally, adding another $1.2 million to its overall total, Top Gun: Maverick dropped a spot and finished in tenth-place as it brought its nineteen-week total to $713.5 million, cementing itself in fifth place on the list of top lifetime domestic grosses.

This box-office weekend, three films were displaced from the top ten. After only three weeks in release, and a fifth-place finish last weekend, the horror film Pearl departs with an overall total of $8.3 million. Meanwhile, last weekend’s sixth-place film, See How They Run was pushed from the list with a three-week haul of $7.9 million. Finally, the sequel Minions: The Rise of Gru could not hold onto the tenth spot of the weekend box office and departs with a fourteen-week total of $366.8 million.

Weekend Box Office (September 30th – October 2nd)

  1. Smile…$22.0 Million
  2. Don’t Worry Darling…$7.3 Million
  3. The Woman King…$7.0 Million
  4. Bros…$4.8 Million
  5. Avatar…$4.7 Million
  6. Ponniyin Selvan: Part One…$4.0 Million
  7. Barbarian…$2.8 Million
  8. Bullet Train…$1.4 Million
  9. DC League of Super-Pets…$1.3 Million
  10. Top Gun: Maverick…$1.2 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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