Box-Office Weekend: Taylor Swift Dominates

The concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour dominated the box-office weekend, finishing ahead of the closest competition by $85 million.

Taylor Swift assumed control of the box office with the limited release of her concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. The film finished the weekend earning $96 million, which was easily enough to dominate second-place finisher The Exorcist: Believer by nearly $90 million. Despite falling to second place this weekend, The Exorcist: Believer still brought it $11 million in its second weekend of release, bringing the Universal Pictures product’s overall total to $44.9 million. Also dropping a spot, to land in third place this weekend, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie managed to scrape together $7 million in its third week for Paramount Pictures to lift its total to $49.9 million. Meanwhile, Saw X similarly fell a spot to finish in fourth place where it added $5.7 million in its third weekend in release to bring its overall total to $41.4 million for Lionsgate Films. Claiming fifth place in its third weekend of release was Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures latest The Creator with $4.3 million. This give the film a cumulative total of $32.4 million to date.

Holding its ground in sixth place was A Haunting in Venice with $2.1 million over the weekend. This gives the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product a five-week total of $39.1 million. Falling two spots to finish in seventh this weekend was The Blind which added $2.0 million in its third weekend of release to bring its overall total to $14.1 million. Dropping one spot to land in eighth place over the weekend, The Nun II added $1.6 million to give the Warner Bros. film a six-week tally of $83.7 million. The Columbia Pictures product The Equalizer 3 held steady in ninth place with $960,000. This gives the film a seven-week total of $90.6 million. Finally, falling two spots to finish in tenth-place this weekend, Dumb Money added $920,000 for Sony Pictures Entertainment to bring the film’s five-week total to $12.6 million.

The only film to bow out of the top ten this weekend was the thirtieth anniversary re-release of Hocus Pocus, which departs the box-office weekend with a two-week total of $3.3 million for this release of the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product.

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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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