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Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Swings Back

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Labor Day Weekend saw the return of two re-releases to the box-office weekend top ten, as Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and Jaws (1975) both cracked the top ten, with Spider-Man topping the bill by with $7.6 million.

The re-release of Spider-Man: No Way Home beat second-place finisher Top Gun: Maverick by a mere $0.6 million as the Tom Cruise vehicle climbed two spots from last weekend to finish in second this week with $7.0 million. This gives the film a whopping fifteen-week total of $700.3 million. The film is now just behind Black Panther which sits in fifth place in the list of top lifetime grosses with $700.4 million. Meanwhile, DC League of Super-Pets also rose a few spots to finish in third place with $6.9 million after finishing in sixth last weekend. This gives the film a six-week total of $82.3 million. All of this activity dropped last weekend’s second-place film, Bullet Train to fourth place with $6.8 million, and a five-week total of $87.3 million. Last weekend’s top film, The Invitation plummeted to a fifth place finish in its second weekend of release as it added $5.8 million to brings its overall total to $14.8 million.

Meanwhile, Beast fell to sixth place from third last week with $4.3 million over the weekend. This gives the film a three-week total of $26.1 million. Climbing a spot to finish in seventh place, was the animated Minions: The Rise of Gru which made $3.9 million over the weekend to bring its ten-week total to $359.6 million. Also climbing a spot from last weekend, and finishing in eighth-place was Thor: Love and Thunder which added $3.0 million to raise its nine-week total to $340.5 million. Last weekend’s fifth-place finisher, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero fell to ninth place with $2.7 million, giving it a three-week total of $34.9 million. Finally, the second re-release over the holiday weekend, Jaws, swam back into theaters to claim the tenth spot of the box-office weekend with $2.7 million.

Two films again departed the top ten as Three Thousand Years of Longing leaves after two weeks and amassing $6.1 million in receipts. Meanwhile, last weekend’s tenth-place finisher, Where the Crawdads Sing, forgoes another weekend in the top ten as it leaves with an eight-week total of $85.4 million.

Weekend Box Office (September 2nd – September 5th)

  1. Spider-Man: No Way Home…$7.6 Million
  2. Top Gun: Maverick…$7.0 Million
  3. DC League of Super-Pets…$6.9 Million
  4. Bullet Train…$6.8 Million
  5. The Invitation…$5.8 Million
  6. Beast…$4.3 Million
  7. Minions: The Rise of Gru…$3.9 Million
  8. Thor: Love and Thunder…$3.0 Million
  9. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (Doragon boru supa supa hiro)…$2.8 Million
  10. Jaws…$2.7 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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