The Hitman’s Bodyguard, starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson easily took the number one spot at the box office this weekend. The action/comedy took in $21.6 million in its first weekend of release, which was well ahead of second-place finisher Annabelle: Creation’s $15.5 million.

Third place again results in a steep drop as the new film from once-retired auteur Steven Soderbergh, Logan Lucky, earned $8.1 million. While it may not have finished atop the box office, it is doing better with critics than other films on this list. Save of course for the fourth-place finisher, Dunkirk, which added $6.7 million to its five-week total of $165.5 million. The animated The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature managed to scrape together $5.1 in its second-week of release bringing its two-week total to an unimpressive $17.7 million as it more than likely begins the end of its time in the top ten. Similarly, The Emoji Movie dropped to sixth with $4.4 million (but has still pulled in $71.8 million in four weeks of release).

Spider-Man: Homecoming held onto the seventh spot with another $4.3 million to bring its seven-week total to $314.1 million. In eighth place, the comedy, Girls Trip, brought its five-week total up to $104 million with a $3.8 million weekend. The Dark Tower managed just $3.7 million in its third week of release and has earned a cumulative total of $41.6 million, which must be just a little disappointing. Wind River closes out the top ten as the film expanded to almost 700 theaters which was good enough to land it $3 million and final spot in our list.

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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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