Box-Office Weekend: The Dragon Repeats

How to Train Your Dragon held the top spot of the box-office weekend by $7.0 million to remain the number one film for a second consecutive weekend.

For a second consecutive weekend, the Universal Pictures International release How to Train Your Dragon claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend. This weekend, the film pulled in $37.0 million, bringing its two-week total to $160.5 million. Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Releasing enjoyed a second-place debut for 28 Years Later as it took in $30.0 million, finishing just $7 million shy of first place. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw its Elio debut in third place with $21.0 million over the weekend. These debuts pushed last weekend’s second-place film, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release of Lilo & Stitch, to fourth place where it added $9.7 million to raise its five-week total to $386.7 million for the studio. Dropping a spot to finish in fifth this weekend, Paramount Pictures International’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning made another $6.6 million this weekend to bring the film’s five-week total to $178.4 million.

Following a debut in third place last weekend, A24’s Materialists fell to sixth place this weekend, adding $5.8 million, to lift its two-week tally to $23.9 million for the studio. After claiming fifth place last weekend, From the World of John Wick: Ballerina dropped two spots this week to ed up in seventh place where it added $4.5 million, giving the Lionsgate release a three-week total of $51.1 million. Also falling two spots was Sony Pictures Releasing’s Karate Kid: Legends which claimed eighth place with $2.4 million. This brings the film’s four-week total to $49.4 million. Warner Brothers saw Final Destination: Bloodlines fall two spots as well as the film finished in ninth place with $1.9 million in its sixth week of release. This brings the film’s overall total to $134.8 million for the studio. Finally, Prathyangira Cinemas enjoyed a $1.8 million tenth-place debut for its release of Kuberaa.

Yet again, three films were forced from the top ten this weekend as last week’s eighth- through tenth-place films all dropped from this weekend’s list. After four weeks in release, Focus Features’ The Phoenician Scheme leaves with a to-date total of $16.2 million. Following three weeks in release, the Neon saw a total of $4.7 million come in via its release of The Life of Chuck. Finally, the Warner Bros. product, Sinners has enjoyed a to-date ten-week total of $277.3 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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