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Box-Office Weekend: That’s Four in a Row for “Barbie”

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the fourth consecutive weekend, Barbie has stood tall atop the box-office weekend. This weekend, the film emerged $15 million ahead of its nearest competitor.

Adding another $34 million to its bank, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has raised its overall total to $526 million in just four weeks. This makes it the second highest grossing domestic film of the year, just behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Meanwhile, Oppenheimer climbed a spot to finish in second with $19 million over the weekend, giving it a four-week tally of $264 million. Also moving up was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem which claimed third place with $16 million over the weekend. This raises the film’s two-week total to $73 million. All of this action pushed Meg 2: The Trench down two spots to a fourth-place finish with $13 million, giving it a two-week total of $54 million. Debuting in fifth place with $6.5 million over the weekend was The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

Dropping a spot to land in sixth-place with $5.6 million was Haunted Mansion which now lays claim to a three-week total of $53 million. Moving up one spot to finish in seventh place was Talk to Me which added $5.1 million over the weekend to lift its three-week total to $31 million. Falling two spots to claim eighth-place with $4.8 million was Sound of Freedom. The film now has a six-week total of $173 million. Also falling two spots was Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One which finished in ninth place with $4.7 million. This gives the latest film in that series a five-week total of $160 million. Finally, also dropping a spot, finishing in tenth place was Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny with $899,000. This gives the latest film of the franchise a seven-week total of $173 million.

Only one film was forced out of the top ten over this box-office weekend. After nine weeks and amassing $150.2 million, Elemental departs the weekend’s top films.

Weekend Box Office (August 11th – August 13th)

  1. Barbie…$34 Million
  2. Oppenheimer…$19 Million
  3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem…$16 Million
  4. Meg 2: The Trench…$13 Million
  5. The Last Voyage of the Demeter…$6.5 Million
  6. Haunted Mansion…$5.6 Million
  7. Talk to Me…$5.1 Million
  8. Sound of Freedom…$4.8 Million
  9. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One…$4.7 Million
  10. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny…$899,000

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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