Box-Office Weekend: The Flash Races to the Top

The box-office weekend saw a major shakeup as four films debuted in the top ten, with one of those claiming the top spot as The Flash finished a solid $25.6 million ahead of the second-place film easily taking control of the weekend box office.

Bringing in $55.1 million over the course of its opening weekend, The Flash easily distanced itself from the rest of the pack to stand on top of the weekend box office. In a distant second place was Pixar’s Elemental, which debuted over the weekend with $29.5 million. Dropping from second to third place was the animated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with $27.8 million. This gives the film a three-week total of $280.4 million. Last weekend’s top film, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts fell all the way to fourth place with $20.0 million in its second weekend in release, bringing its overall total to $100.6 million. All of this activity pushed The Little Mermaid down two spots to a fifth-place finish this weekend with $11.6 million. This gives the Disney product a four-week total of $253.6 million.

Making its debut in the sixth spot over the weekend was The Blackening with $6.0 million. In its seventh weekend in release, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 dropped from fourth to seventh place where it added $5.0 million to raise its overall total to $344.4 million. In its third weekend, The Boogeyman added $3.8 million despite falling three spots to eighth-place this weekend (the film now sports a three-week total of $32.8 million). Also dropping three spots was Fast X which finished in ninth-place this weekend with $2.0 million. This gives the film a five-week total of $142.4 million. Finally, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City debuted in the top ten in the last spot with $750,000 to show for its first weekend in release.

Four films were forced out the box-office weekend as the titles in seventh- thru tenth-place from last weekend were all dispatched by this weekend’s newcomers. After amassing $572 million over the last eleven weeks, The Super Mario Bros. Movie probably won’t fret leaving the top ten at this point. Meanwhile, About My Father departs the top ten after earning just $11.5 million over the passed four weeks. Similarly, The Machine and Past Lives both leave the top ten with three-week totals of $10.1 million and $1.9 million respectively.

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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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