Box-Office Weekend: Terrifier Shakes Things Up

A new film took control of the box-office weekend as Cineverse’s Terrifier 3 managed to unseat last weekend’s top film, Joker: Folie à Deux, by a margin of $4.9 million.

In its first weekend of release, Terrifier 3 brought in $18.3 million for its studio, landing in squarely in the first slot of this week’s top ten. Meanwhile, The Wild Robot held steady in second place where it took in $13.4 million for Universal Pictures, raising the film’s three-week total to $83.7 million. Meanwhile, Joker: Folie à Deux fell from first to third place, where it brought in $7.1 million for Warner Bros., raising its two-week total to $51.6 million. Warner Brothers also saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice fall a spot to fourth place this weekend where it added $7.05 million, to raise its six-week total to $275.6 million. The new LEGO-inspired film Piece by Piece debuted in fifth place where it made $3.8 million for Focus Features.

Paramount Pictures saw Transformers One fall two spots to claim sixth place with $3.7 million over the weekend. This brings the film’s four-week total to $52.9 million. Seventh place saw the Sony Pictures Releasing product Saturday Night creep into the top ten in its third week of release with $3.4 million earned over the weekend, raising its overall total to $4.2 million. My Hero Academia: You’re Next debuted in eighth-place with $3.0 million. Ninth place was claimed by the re-release of the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product The Nightmare Before Christmas which brought in $2.3 million over the weekend. Finally, the tenth spot of this weekend’s list went to The Apprentice from Briarcliff Entertainment with $1.6 million earned in its first weekend in release.

All of this activity pushed a total of six films from the top ten, as last weekend’s sixth- through tenth-place films all failed to make this weekend’s list. After five weeks, the Universal Pictures offering, Speak No Evil managed to take in a total of $35.2 million. After only one weekend in release, and a tally of $1.8 million, Sam and Colby: The Legends of the Paranormal also failed to make the top ten this weekend. The Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures film Deadpool & Wolverine leaves the top ten after amassing $635.2 million over the last twelve weeks. Lionsgate saw White Bird bring in $3.0 million over the last two weeks. The MUBI release, The Substance managed to take in $11.7 million during its four weeks in release. Finally, over the last three weeks, Megalopolis managed to earn only $7.3 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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