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Box-Office Weekend: The Batman Stands Firm

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the second week in a row, The Batman eclipsed the box-office weekend by a vast amount. While there wasn’t a $117.5 million difference between the two top films this weekend, The Batman did hold onto first place by a margin of $56.7 million.

The Warner Bros. juggernaut added $66.0 over the weekend to lift its two-week total to $238.5 million. This places the film at 146 of the top domestic grosses of all time. Again, Uncharted came in second behind The Batman as the Sony Pictures Entertainment offering took in $9.3 million over the weekend to raise its four-week total to $113.4 million. Debuting in third place was the pay-per-view concert film BTS Permission to Dance on Stage—Seoul: Live Viewing with $6.8 million. Dropping a spot to fourth place this weekend Dog with $5.3 million. The Channing Tatum vehicle now sports a four-week total of $47.8 million. Also slipping one spot of the weekend was Spider-Man: No Way Home which still managed to add $4.1 million to boost its thirteen-week tally to $792.3 million as it creeps toward its next milestone.

Finishing in sixth place over the weekend was the 20th Century Fox film Death on the Nile with took in $2.5 million to boost its five-week total to $40.8 million. The Indian film Radhe Shyam debuted in the top ten over the weekend in seventh spot with $1.9 million to show for its opening weekend. Meanwhile, the animated Sing 2 from Universal Pictures finished in eighth place with $1.6 million. This gives the family film a twelve-week total of $155.8 million. Again, falling two spots (as it did last weekend), was Jackass Forever which finished in ninth place with $1.1 million. The film now lays claim to a six-week total of $56.3 million. Finally, Scream again held onto the tenth spot with $445,000 over the weekend. This gives the Paramount Pictures release a nine-week tally of $80.9 million.

Again, two films were displaced from the box-office weekend top ten. Cyrano, which finished in eighth place last weekend, departs after bringing in $3.3 million in its first three weeks of release. Meanwhile, last week’s ninth-place finisher, Gangubai Kathawadi drops out of the top ten with a domestic total of $592,000.

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

  1. The Batman…$66.0 Million
  2. Uncharted…$9.3 Million
  3. BTS Permission to Dance on Stage – Seoul: Live Viewing…$6.8 Million
  4. Dog…$5.3 Million
  5. Spider-Man: No Way Home…$4.1 Million
  6. Death on the Nile…$2.5 Million
  7. Radhe Shyam…$1.9 Million
  8. Sing 2…$1.6 Million
  9. Jackass Forever…$1.1 Million
  10. Scream…$445,000

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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