Box-Office Weekend: The Lost City Bests Batman

For the first time in nearly a month the box-office weekend had a new film atop its leaderboard as The Lost City bested The Batman by $10.5 million to claim the top spot.

In its first weekend of release, The Lost City took in $31 million to wrench the number one spot away from the Warner Bros. behemoth which finished in second place with $20.5 million. Still, The Batman sports a four-week total of $332 million as it moved to #68 on the top domestic grosses of all time. Third place was claimed by newcomer RRR (Rise Roar Revolt) which debuted to the tune of $9.5 million over the weekend. Dropping a spot to finish in fourth was Uncharted from Sony Pictures which added $5 million over the weekend to lift the film’s six-week total to $133.6 million. Last week’s second-place film, Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0, fell a few spots to land in fifth place over the weekend with $4.6 million. The film now claims a two-week total of $27.7 million.

Falling from fourth place to sixth this weekend was the horror film X, which added $2.2 million to raise its two-week total to $8.3 million. Just behind that was Dog, which fell two spots to seventh place with $2.1 million to show for the weekend. The Channing Tatum vehicle now claims a six-week total of $57.9 million. Meanwhile, Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home fell two spots to finish in eighth place over the weekend with $2 million. The film now owns a fifteen-week total of $800.6 million as it climbs toward Avengers: Endgame to take over second place on the list of top lifetime grosses. Climbing one spot to finish in ninth this weekend was the animated Sing 2 which added $1.3 million to raise its fourteen-week total to $160.3 million. Finally, the third film to debut over the weekend, Infinite Storm, finished in the tenth spot with $751,000 in its first week of release.

Three films (last week’s seventh, eighth, and ninth-place finishers) were pushed from the box-office weekend top ten. Death on the Nile departed after amassing a seven-week total of $44.9 million, while The Outfit left with a two-week tally of $2.7 million, and The Kashmir Files disappears with $1.5 million to show for one week in release.

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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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