Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Leads Again

Things stayed pretty much status quo over the box-office weekend as Spider-Man: No Way Home held the number one spot by $3.6 million and the rest of the top ten stayed pretty much the same as last week, save for the departure of one film and two titles flipping positions.

Spider-Man: No Way Home finished the weekend with $11.0 million. This allowed the film to creep closer to surpassing Avatar as the third highest domestic grossing film of all time as No Way Home stands at $735.9 million and Avatar sits at $760.5 million. Second place held steady with Scream pulling in $7.4 million to lift its three-week total to $62.1 million. The animated musical Sing 2 crooned well enough to remain in third place earning $4.8 million and increasing its six-week tally to $134.5 million. Meanwhile, the romance Redeeming Love was locked in at number four this weekend with $1.9 million. The film now lays claim to a two-week total of $6.5 million. In fifth place, the latest film in the “Kingsmen” series, The King’s Man stood its ground with $1.8 million over the weekend, lifting the film’s six-week total to $34.0 million.

Sixth place was again claimed by The 355. The action/adventure film took in $1.4 million over the weekend to lift its four-week total to $13.1 million. The drama chronicling the life of Kurt Warner, American Underdog didn’t allow another film to gain any yards on it as it finished in seventh-place again with $1.2 million. The film now boasts an eleven-week total of $128.1 million. Creeping back into the top ten after a brief absence was the most recent addition to the “Ghostbusters” canon, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which took the eighth spot of the top ten with $770,000 over the weekend. The sequel/reboot now lays claim to an eleven-week total of $128.1 million. Licorice Pizza crept from the tenth spot last week to take ninth place over the weekend with $691,000. The film now has a ten-week total of $11.8 million. Finally, Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story lost its footing a bit and ceded the penultimate spot to finish in tenth this weekend with $614,000 to raise its eight-week total to $36 million.

Only one film dropped out of the box-office weekend top ten this week. Last weekend’s eighth place finisher, The King’s Daughter, failed to make the top ten, instead finishing in thirteenth place. The film departs our list after amassing a total of $1.47 million over its first two weeks in release.

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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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