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Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Remains Top Dog

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Spider-Man: No Way Home held the top spot of the box-office weekend for a third straight weekend. Again, the film finished atop second-place film by quite a considerable margin; this weekend by $33.1 million. As it adds to its total as the highest grossing domestic film of last year, No Way Home now sports a three-week tally of $609.9 million.

In its third weekend of release, Spider-Man: No Way Home added another $52.7 million to the bank. This was more than enough to ensure dominance over Sing 2 which, despite holding onto second place for a second straight week, managed only $19.6 million over the holiday weekend. This gives the film a two-week total of $89.7 million. Climbing a spot to land in third place this weekend, was The King’s Man which, despite mixed reviews, added $4.5 million to raise its two-week tally to $19.5 million. Also moving up a spot was the Kurt Warner biopic, American Underdog which managed to finish in fourth place with $4.1 million over the weekend. The film now claims a two-week total of $15 million. In its second week of release, The Matrix Resurrections fell from third to finish in fifth place after bringing in only $3.8 million. This gives the fourth film in the Matrix series a two-week total of $30.9 million.

Holding steady in sixth place was director Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story with $2.1 million. The film now lays claim to a four-week tally of $29.6 million. Climbing back into the top ten after dropping out last weekend, is the sequel/reboot Ghostbusters: Afterlife which brought in $¼ over the weekend, lifting its seven-week total to $123.4 million. Falling one spot to finish in eighth place was Licorice Pizza which added $1.2 million to give the film a six-week total of $6.3 million. Also slipping one spot was A Journal for Jordan which debuted last weekend in eighth place, but could only manage $1.175 million this weekend, keeping it from besting Licorice Pizza. Finally, last week’s ninth-place film, the animated Encanto finished in the tenth spot with $1.1 million, giving the family-friendly film a six-week total of $91.3 million.

Unlike last weekend, when seven films departed the top ten, only one film got the boot over the holiday as ’83 took leave of the box-office weekend in only its second week after earning a grand total of $3.5 million.

Weekend Box Office (December 31st – January 2nd)

  1. Spider-Man: No Way Home…$52.7 Million
  2. Sing 2…$19.6 Million
  3. The King’s Man…$4.5 Million
  4. American Underdog…$4.1 Million
  5. The Matrix Resurrections…$3.8 Million
  6. West Side Story…$2.1 Million
  7. Ghostbusters: Afterlife…$1.4 Million
  8. Licorice Pizza…$1.2 Million
  9. A Journal for Jordan…$1.2 Million
  10. Encanto…$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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