Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Reclaims Crown

After being pushed from the top of the box-office last weekend, Spider-Man: No Way Home reclaimed the number one spot from Scream by a mere $1.7 million.

Although Spider-Man: No Way Home finished with $14.1 million, it was still enough to best Scream and knock last week’s top film to second place. No Way Home now boasts a six-week total of $721.0 million and has moved ahead of Black Panther to become the fourth top grossing domestic film of all time. The Marvel juggernaut is now around $39 million shy of catching 1990’s Avatar. Despite falling to second place, Scream still landed $12.4 million over the weekend to lift the film’s two-week total to $51.3 million. Holding steady in the third spot of the weekend was the animated musical Sing 2 which added $5.7 million to give the film a five-week total of $128.4 million. The first of two debuts in the top ten this weekend, the romance Redeeming Love took in $3.7 million in its first week of release. Meanwhile, The King’s Man held firm in fifth place with $1.8 million over the weekend. This gives the latest film in the “Kingsmen” series a five-week total of $31.5 million.

Falling two spots to finish in sixth place was the action/adventure film The 355, which managed to take in $1.6 million and boost its three-week total to $11.1 million. The Kurt Warner biography American Underdog held steady in the seventh spot adding $1.2 million to give the film a five-week total of $23.1 million. The second debut of the weekend, the action/adventure/romance The King’s Daughter (not to be confused with being part of the earlier discussed “Kingsmen” series), finished in eighth place with $750,000. Falling one spot to finish in ninth was the remake of West Side Story with $698,000, which gives the film a seven-week total of $35.1 million. And, finally, finishing in the tenth spot after claiming ninth place last weekend, Licorice Pizza added $683,000 to give the film a nine-week total of $10.8 million.

As two films crept into the box-office weekend top ten, last week’s fourth-place film, Ryû to sobakasu no hime (Belle) dropped from the list with a total of $2.7 million. After falling from the sixth to the tenth spot last weekend, The Matrix Resurrections could only muster $435,000 over the weekend and failed to make the top ten, leaving with what has to be a disappointing five-week total of $36.6 million.

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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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