Box Office Weekend: Solo Stays on Top

In its second week of release, Solo: A Star Wars Story managed to take in $29.3 million to remain on top of the weekend box office. This gives the film an impressive two-week total of $148.9 million. And, as it did last week, Deadpool 2 finished in second place, though this time the margin wasn’t nearly as drastic as the Marvel sequel took in $23.3 million (just $6 million behind its Star Wars competition).

Debuting in the third spot of this week’s top ten is the survival tale Adrift, starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, which earned $11.5 million in its first weekend of release. Adrift thus nudges Avengers: Infinity War—which added $10.4 million to raise its six-week total to $642.9 million—to fourth place. Incidentally, we suspect the studio isn’t sweating the slight dip in this week’s ranking given the film’s overall performance.

Also, dropping down one spot, in its third week of release, to fifth, is the Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen starring comedy Book Club, which brought in $6.8 million, giving it an overall total of $47.3 million. The action/horror/sci-fi hybrid Upgrade, from writer/director Leigh Whannell, landed in sixth place on this week’s list with a debut performance of $4.5 million.

Melissa McCarthy and Life of the Party fell from fifth to seventh with an intake of $3.5 million, giving the comedy a four-week total of $46.3 million. The Gabrielle Union-led Breaking In similarly fell two spots to finish in eighth with $2.8 million.

Ninth-place in this week’s top ten belongs to the latest offering from Johnny Knoxville, Action Point, which brought in $2.3 million, and again signals yet the further decline of western civilization. Finally, Overboard brought in $2.0 million, giving the remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell vehicle a five-week total of $45.5 million (almost double what the original film made when it was first released). Leaving the top ten this weekend were three films: Show Dogs, RBG, and A Quiet Place (which has brought in an impressive $183.5 million domestically during its run). Meanwhile, next weekend sees the release of several new films the most formidable of which will likely be Ocean’s 8, the all-female reboot of the remarkably popular “Ocean’s” franchise.

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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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