Box-Office Weekend: Super Pets Claim Crown

Both Jordan Peele’s Nope and Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder were bested by newcomer DC League of Super Pets which took the top spot of the box-office weekend by $4.5 million.

The animated heroes of the DC League of Super-Pets> debuted atop the box-office weekend bringing in $23.0 million. This bested last weekend’s top film, Nope, which took in $18.5 million in its second weekend of release to lift it’s total to $80.6 million. Meanwhile, Thor: Love and Thunder was pushed to third place with $13.1 million in its fourth weekend of release. The Marvel film now sports a grand total of $301.5 million. Similarly slipping a spot to finish in fourth place over the weekend was the animated sequel Minions: The Rise of Gru. The film took in $10.9 million in its fifth weekend in release to bring it’s total to $320.4 million. Holding steady in fifth place was Top Gun: Maverick, which added $8.2 million over the weekend to bring its ten-week total to an impressive $650.1 million.

Falling from fourth to sixth place was the well-received Where the Crawdads Sing which took in $7.5 million in its third weekend of release to bring it total so far to $53.5 million. Dropping a spot to finish in seventh was Elvis, which added $5.8 million and brings the Elvis Presley biopic’s six-week total to $129.0 million. Holding steady in eighth-place was the horror film The Black Phone which added $2.5 million over the weekend to raise its six-week total to $83.1 million. Also standing firm in its position from last weekend was Jurassic World Dominion which held the ninth spot with $2.1 million. This gives the latest film in the “Jurassic Park” series an eight-week total of $369.5 million. Finally, the comedy/mystery/thriller Vengeance debuted in tenth place over the weekend bringing in $1.8 million in its first weekend of release.

Two films were forced from the weekend box-office top ten during the passed three days. After finishing in seventh place last weekend, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank finished in twelfth place and leaves with a three-week total of $16.9 million. Meanwhile, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris similarly dropped from the top ten to finish just ahead of Paws of Fury in eleventh place sporting a two-week total of $6.8 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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