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Posted September 24, 2023 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: “The Nun II” Three-Peats

For a third consecutive week, The Nun II maintained its position on top of the box-office weekend, albeit by the extremely slim lead of only $0.1 million.

"The Nun II" posterAlthough The Nun II again experienced a decline in revenue – it made $6.3 million less than last weekend – it still managed to hold onto the number one slot of the top ten with $8.4 million, giving the Warner Bros. film a total of $69.2 million to date. Debuting in second place, Expend4ables made $8.3 million for Lionsgate, finishing just behind The Nun II. Falling a spot to third this weekend was A Haunting in Venice, which added $6.3 million over the weekend for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, giving the film a two-week tally of $25.4 million. Also dropping a spot this weekend was The Equalizer 3, which brought in $4.7 million for Columbia Pictures in its fourth weekend of release, giving it an overall total of $81.3 million. Holding its ground in fifth place, Barbie added $3.2 million this weekend to give the Warner Bros. product a ten-week total of $630.5 million.

Dropping two spots and landing in sixth place this weekend, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 managed to bring in $3.0 million for Focus Features over the weekend, giving the film a three-week total of $23.8 million. Debuting in seventh place was It Lives Inside with $2.6 million in its first weekend of release for Neon. Meanwhile, in its second weekend of release, Dumb Money leapt from nineteenth place to an eighth-place finish this weekend, where it brought in $2.5 million, giving the film an overall total of $2.8 million for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Sinking three spots in its sixth week in release, Blue Beetle made $1.8 million over the weekend, which was good enough to land it in ninth place. The film now claims a six-week tally of $69.8 million for Warner Bros. Finally, despite dropping a spot and landing in tenth place with $1.6 million in its tenth week of release, Oppenheimer still sports an impressive cumulative total of $321.2 million for Universal Pictures.

Three films were pushed out of the top ten this weekend. Despite cracking the list last weekend, Yash Raj Films USA Inc.’s Jawan failed to do so again in its second week of release, limiting its overall tally to $12.1 million. Gran Turismo has made $41.8 million for Sony Pictures Entertainment over the last five weeks, but it was unable to land in the top ten this weekend; instead finishing in twelfth place. Finally, Paramount Pictures’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem could not repeat a tenth-place finish this weekend, instead settling for eleventh and an eight-week tally of $116.3 million.

Weekend Box Office (September 22nd – September 24th)

  1. The Nun II…$8.4 Million
  2. Expend4bles…$8.3 Million
  3. A Haunting in Venice…$6.3 Million
  4. The Equalizer 3…$4.7 Million
  5. Barbie…$3.2 Million
  6. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3…$3.0 Million
  7. It Lives Inside…$2.6 Million
  8. Dumb Money…$2.5 Million
  9. Blue Beetle…$1.8 Million
  10. Oppenheimer…$1.6 Million
Mike Tyrkus

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.