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Box-Office Weekend: Taylor Remains in Control

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour once again dominated the box-office weekend, beating the rest of the pack by $20.0 million.

For a second consecutive weekend, the limited release of the concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour held the reigns of the weekend box office. In its second week of release, the film brought in $31.0 million, easily remaining atop the box-office weekend top ten. The film now sports a two-week tally of $129.8 million. Meanwhile, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon debuted in second place with $11.0 million over the weekend, and an overall opening of $23.0 million for Paramount Pictures. This dropped The Exorcist: Believer to third place where it added $5.6 million to bring its three-week total to $54.2 million for Universal Pictures. Also dropping a spot and finishing in fourth place this weekend, was PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie which brought in $4.5 million over its fourth weekend in release to bring the Paramount Pictures product’s overall total to $56.1 million. Debuting in fifth place was the thirtieth anniversary re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas which took in $4.1 million this weekend foor Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Saw X fell two spots to land in sixth place this weekend where it added $3.6 million to bring the Lionsgate Films product’s four-week total to $47.2 million. Also dropping two places to finish in seventh this weekend was the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product The Creator. The film brought in $2.6 million in its fourth weekend of release to bring the film’s four-week total to $36.8 million. Meanwhile, A Haunting in Venice dropped two places to finish in eighth-place this weekend where it added $1.1 million to give the Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture offering a six-week total of $40.9 million. Also falling two spots to finish in ninth-place this weekend was The Blind which managed to bring in $1.0 million this weekend, raising its four-week total to $15.7 million. Finally, after seven weeks, The Nun II has amassed $85.2 million for Warner Bros., but could only bring in $887,000 this weekend and claim tenth place.

Two films were pushed out of the top ten this weekend as both ninth- and tenth-place finishers from last week failed to make the cut again this time around. After eight weeks in release, The Equalizer 3 has made $91.5 million for Columbia Pictures, but it couldn’t hold onto it’s ninth-place finish last weekend. Meanwhile, after six weeks, Dumb Money failed to repeat its tenth-place finish last weekend, but still sports a $13.5 million total for Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Weekend Box Office (October 20th – October 22nd)

    1. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour…$31.0 Million
    2. Killers of the Flower Moon…$11.0 Million
    3. The Exorcist: Believer…$5.6 Million
    4. PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie…$4.5 Million
    5. The Nightmare Before Christmas 30th Anniversary Re-Release…$4.1 Million
    6. Saw X…$3.6 Million
    7. The Creator…$2.6 Million
    8. A Haunting in Venice…$1.1 Million
    9. The Blind…$1.0 Million
    10. The Nun II…$887,000

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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