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Box-Office Weekend: The Batman Still on Top

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the third straight weekend, The Batman maintained its stranglehold on the box-office weekend by a considerable chunk of change. This weekend, The Batman held onto the top spot by $22 million.

The folks at Warner Bros. have to be pleased with the performance The Batman has delivered so far. The film again held the number one position over the weekend with $36.8 million, giving the film a three-week total of $300.1 million. This catapulted the film to #91 of the top domestic grosses of all time (it was at #146 last week). Meanwhile, Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 debuted in second place with $14.8 million over the weekend, and a grand total opening of $17.7 million. In its fifth week, the Sony Pictures offering Uncharted brought in $8.0 million to claim third place for the weekend. The film now boasts a five-week tally of $125.9 million. The horror film X debuted in fourth place over the weekend with $4.4 million. This dropped last week’s fourth-place finisher, Dog, to the fifth spot and a $4.1 million take. The film now lays claim to a five-week total of $54.2 million.

Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home dropped a spot to finish in sixth place over the weekend with $3.2 million. The film now boasts a fourteen-week total of $797.5 million. Similarly falling a spot to finish in seventh place was Death on the Nile which took in $1.7 million to raise its six-week total to $43.6 million. The crime drama The Outfit debuted iover the weekned in the eighth spot with $1.5 million. Just behind that was the debut of the thriller The Kashmir Files which also took in $1.5 million to finish in ninth place. Finally, the animated Sing 2 brought in $1.5 million over the weekend and finished in the tenth spot of the countdown, dropping two spots from last weekend. This gives the release from Universal Pictures a thirteen-week total of $158.5 million.

Four films found themselves dispatched from the box-office weekend top ten over the last three days. BTS Permission to Dance on Stage – Seoul: Live Viewing, which landed in third place last weekend was nowhere to be found seven days later. The same was true of last week’s seventh-place finisher, Radhe Shyam. Meanwhile, both Jackass Forever and Scream said goodbye to the top ten after having had rather lengthy relationships with the countdown.

Weekend Box Office (March 18th – March 20th)

  1. The Batman…$36.8 Million
  2. Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0…$14.8 Million
  3. Uncharted…$8.0 Million
  4. X…$4.4 Million
  5. Dog…$4.1 Million
  6. Spider-Man: No Way Home…$3.2 Million
  7. Death on the Nile…$1.7 Million
  8. The Outfit…$1.5 Million
  9. The Kashmir Files…$1.5 Million
  10. Sing 2…$1.5 Million

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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