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Box-Office Weekend: “The Nun II” Leads Shake Up

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Yet again, a new film stands on top of the box-office weekend as The Nun II claimed first place over the weekend by a margin of $20.5 million.

In its first weekend in release, The Nun II took in $32.6 million for Warner Bros., easily claiming first place. In a distant second place was last weekend’s top film, Columbia Pictures’ The Equalizer 3, which made $12.1 million for Columbia Pictures in its second weekend of release. The film now has an overall total of $61.9 million. Focus Features enjoyed a third-place finish as the latest offering from the studio, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 made $10 million during its first weekend in release. The action film Jawan from Yash Raj Films USA Inc. debuted in fourth place where it brought in $6.2 million over the weekend (and $7.6 million overall to show for its opening). Those three debuts pushed Barbie from second to a fifth-place finish this weekend where it added $5.9 million. This gives the Warner Bros. film an eight-week total of $620.5 million, making it the highest domestic grossing movie of the year by $45.6 million.

Dropping three spots to finish in sixth place over the weekend was the Warner Bros. film Blue Beetle which took in $3.8 million to bring its four-week total to $63.7 million for Warner Brothers. As did Blue Beetle the next four films on this weekend’s top ten fell three spots from their respective finishes last weekend. In its third weekend in release, Gran Turismo brought in $3.4 million for Sony Pictures Entertainment to lift the film’s overall total to $35.7 million. Universal Pictures has to be pleased with Oppenheimer‘s eight-week total of $315.1 million, even if the film finished this weekend in eighth-place with $3 million. With $2.6 million over the weekend, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem gave Paramount Pictures a ninth-place finish this week as well as bringing the film’s six-week total to $111.3 million. Finally, Bottoms claimed tenth place with $2.1 million over the weekend, giving the Orion Pictures product a three-week tally of $7.6 million.

Three films were once again forced from the box-office top ten this weekend. For the second consecutive weekend, the eight-, ninth-, and tenth-place films from the previous week were all pushed out of the current top ten. With a six-week total of $80.7 million delivered for Warner Bros., Meg 2: The Trench failed to finish in the top ten this weekend. After grossing $22.9 million in its first four weeks in release, the Universal Pictures release Strays was unable to find a home in this week’s top ten as well. Finally, despite bringing in $46 million for A24 over the last seven weeks, Talk to Me could not hold onto a top ten spot this weekend.

Weekend Box Office (September 8th – September 10th)

  1. The Nun II…$32.6 Million
  2. The Equalizer 3…$12.1 Million
  3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3…$10.0 Million
  4. Jawan…$6.2 Million
  5. Barbie…$5.9 Million
  6. Blue Beetle…$3.8 Million
  7. Gran Turismo…$3.4 Million
  8. Oppenheimer…$3.0 Million
  9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem…$2.6 Million
  10. Bottoms…$2.1 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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