Box-Office Weekend: The Marvels Dominates

A new film claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend as The Marvels enjoyed a dominating opening weekend, beating the second-place film by $38.0 million.

Over its first weekend in release, the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures offering, The Marvels took in $47.0 million. This easily bested second-place finisher Five Nights at Freddy’s which added $9.0 million in its third week in release to bring the Universal Pictures International film’s overall tally to $127.2 million. This pushed Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour to a third place finish where it added $5.9 million, raising its total take to $172.5 million. Holding its ground in fourth place, Priscilla took in $4.8 million to give the A24 product a three-week total of $12.7 million. In its fourth week in release, Killers of the Flower Moon fell two spots to land in fifth place this weekend where it added $4.7 million to raise the Paramount Pictures product’s total to $59.9 million.

Climbing into the top ten in its third week of release, The Holdovers brought in $3.2 million for Focus Features, giving the film an overall total of $4.3 million. The Affirm Films offering, Journey to Bethlehem made its debut in seventh place with $2.4 million to show for its first weekend in release. Another film holding its position from last weekend was PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie which retained eighth place with $1.76 million over the weekend, giving the Paramount Pictures release a seven-week total of $64.6 million. In its second week of release, Pantelion Films’ Radical dropped from fifth place last weekend to ninth place this week with $1.75 million. This gives the film an cumulative total of $5.2 million. Falling four spots to finish in the final spot this weekend was Universal Pictures’ The Exorcist: Believer with $1.2 million, giving the film a six-week total of $65.0 million.

Yet again, three films were pushed out of the weekend box-office top ten as last weekend’s seventh, ninth, and tenth-place films fell from this weekend’s list. First of all, the Angel Studios product After Death departs the top ten after finishing in seventh place last weekend, bringing in a cumulative $10.9 million for the studio. Secondly, last weekend’s ninth-place film, What Happens Later drops from the top ten after making $2.9 million over the last two weeks for Bleecker Street Media. Finally, after three weeks, Relativity Media’s Freelance drops out of the top ten with an overall total of $5.1 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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