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Box Office Weekend: Solo: A Star Wars Story Debuts on Top

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Despite finishing atop the Memorial Day weekend box office, the latest entry to the “Star Wars” canon from Disney and Lucasfilm, Solo: A Star Wars Story, failed to break the $100 million plateau, managing just $83.3 million. Albeit, this was still around double what second-place finisher Deadpool 2 brought in with $42.7 million. All in all, it must be considered a disappointing opening given the lofty expectations for the film.

With its second-place finish, Deadpool 2 brought its two-week total up to $207.4 million. Third-place finisher Avengers: Infinity War took in $16.5 million to give it an astounding five-week total of $621.7 million. This moves the super-hero team-up epic to sixth place on the all-time domestic box-office chart, just ahead of its forbearer The Avengers (2012).

Book Club finished its second-week with $9.5 million over the weekend, which was good enough to land it in fourth place. Meanwhile, the Melissa McCarthy-led comedy Life of the Party took in $5.1 million to claim fifth place and a three-week tally of $39.1 million.

Gabrielle Union did solid business again with Breaking In, adding $4.1 million to the film’s three-week take of $35.6 million. The, ahem, comedy, Show Dogs finished its second weekend with $3.1 million to brings its tally to $10.7 million. Just behind those pesky pooches was the unwarranted Overboard with $3.0 million. This gives the remake of the 1987 comedy a four-week total of $41.5 million which is, sadly, almost twice as much as the original made when it was first released.

Not on the level of Deadpool 2 or Avengers: Infinity War, but still doing amazing business just the same is ninth-place finisher A Quiet Place which added another $2.2 million to its $180 million domestic total. And, finally, Magnolia’s RBG again took the final spot in this week’s top ten with $1.1 million, giving it a four-week total of $5.6 million. It’s also the only film to stand pat in the top ten this week as everything slipped down one spot (with Rampage vacating the list altogether) to make room for top-finisher Solo: A Star Wars Story. Expect another shake up next week, though probably not nearly as drastic, as we’ll have at least five new films being released.

Weekend Box Office (May 25th – May 27th)

  1. Solo: A Star Wars Story…$83.3 Million
  2. Deadpool 2…$42.7 Million
  3. Avengers: Infinity War…$16.5 Million
  4. Book Club…$9.5 Million
  5. Life of the Party…$5.1 Million
  6. Breaking In…$4.1 Million
  7. Show Dogs…$3.1 Million
  8. Overboard…$3.0 Million
  9. A Quiet Place…$2.2 Million
  10. RBG…$1.1 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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