Box-Office Weekend: Sonic Speeds by Morbius

Yet again, a new film sits atop the box-office weekend, as Sonic the Hedgehog 2 displaced Morbius from the number one spot by a margin of $60.8 million.

Debuting at number one, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the sequel to the 2020 film, pulled in $71 million and easily distanced itself from last week’s number one film, Morbius, which managed only $10.3 million over the weekend to land in second place. The Jared Leto vehicle now claims a two-week total of $57.1 million. Meanwhile, The Lost City dropped a spot as well, finishing in third place with $9.2 million. The film now has a three-week tally of $68.9 million. Debuting in the top ten at number four was the Michael Bay-directed Ambulance which drove home with $8.7 million to show for the weekend. In its sixth week in release, The Batman brought in $6.6 million, finishing in fifth place, and lifting its grand total to $359.1 million, moving it to #53 on the list of top domestic grosses of all time.

In its third week in release, Everything Everywhere All at Once vaulted from tenth to sixth place bringing in $6.1 million over the weekend. The film now claims a grand total of $8.4 million. Falling from fourth to seventh place was the action film Uncharted which added $2.7 million over the weekend to raise its eight-week total to $143 million. Falling one spot to finish in eighth place was the Marvel film Spider-Man: No Way Home which made $625,000 over the weekend and now sports a seventeen-week total of $803.8 million. Laying claim to ninth place was the re-release of the 1997 biopic Selena which pulled in $402,000 over the weekend. Finally, the animated Sing 2 crept back into the top ten over the weekend with $220,000 to raise its sixteen-week tally to $162.3 million.

This weekend, four films were pushed from the box-office weekend top ten. After finishing in fifth place last weekend, Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 departed the top ten after earning a total of $29.7 million. Meanwhile, last week’s sixth-place film, RRR (Rise Roar Revolt), only has $11.1 million to claim for its time in the top ten. Channing Tatum and Dog dropped from eighth place, leaving the top ten with a grand total of $60.7 million. Lastly, the horror film, X, leaves the top ten with a total of $11 million after finishing in ninth place last weekend.

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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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