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Box-Office Weekend: The Invisible Man Demands to Be Seen

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

A new film not only led the weekend box office, but it also displaced the former number one film by $13.0 million. The horror film, The Invisible Man debuted over the weekend, earning $29 million. The film seems to be a hit with both critics and audiences and could possibly enjoy a healthy stay in the top ten. But, only time will tell.

With a strong opening weekend, The Invisible Man easily bested second-place finisher, and former first-place film, Sonic the Hedgehog, which only brought in $16 million. Despite finishing in second-place, the film has managed to earn $128.3 million in its first three weeks of release, so it’s doubtful anyone is too upset about the fall from the top spot.

Similarly dropping a spot over the weekend was the Harrison Ford vehicle The Call of the Wild, which added $24.8 million to give the film a two-week total of $45.9 million and a third-place finish on our countdown. Finishing in fourth place was My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, which took in $5.1 million in its first weekend of release for FUNimation and can now boast a total of around $8.5 million. Standing pat in fifth place, was Bad Boys for Life with $4.3 million. The film now sports a seven-week tally of $197.4 million.

Dropping from third place last weekend to sixth, was Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn as it added another $4.1 million, to lift its disappointing four-week total to $78.8 million. Meanwhile, Impractical Jokers: The Movie crept into the top ten in its second week of release sporting $3.5 million over the weekend, giving the film a total of $6.6 million.

The critically acclaimed 1917 fell two spots over the weekend to eighth place with $2.7 million, giving the film a ten-week cumulative total of $155.9 million. The horror film Brahms: The Boy II managed to bring in only $2.6 million during its second weekend in release as it dropped from fourth place to finish in the penultimate spot in our list. The film now sports a disappointing total of $9.8 million, which certainly doesn’t suggest that a third film will be forthcoming in the series.

Finally, another film dropping drastically in our countdown was the horror re-imaging of the television show Fantasy Island, which made $2.3 million over the weekend as it fell from seventh to tenth place in its third week of release.

Three films took their leave of the weekend box-office over the past three days, including the stalwart Jumanji: The Next Level, which barely missed the top ten, making $2.1 million, to give the film an impressive total of $313.7 million. Meanwhile, Oscar-darling Parasite fell from the eighth spot last weekend to finish with $1.5 million, but not before it lifted its cumulative total to $51.6 million. Finally, The Photograph continued its radical descent from the top ten by dropping from the tenth spot last weekend to oblivion earning just $1.1 million, lifting its three-week tally to $19.6 million.

Next weekend will showcase the latest release from Disney and Pixar, Onward, starring Chris Pratt and Tom Holland as well as the basketball drama The Way Back led by Ben Affleck.

Weekend Box Office (February 28th – March 1st)

  1. The Invisible Man…$29.0 Million
  2. Sonic the Hedgehog…$16.0 Million
  3. The Call of the Wild…$24.8 Million
  4. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising…$5.1 Million
  5. Bad Boys for Life…$4.3 Million
  6. Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn…$4.1 Million
  7. Impractical Jokers: The Movie…$3.5 Million
  8. 1917…$2.7 Million
  9. Brahms: The Boy II…$2.6 Million
  10. Fantasy Island…$2.3 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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