Box-Office Weekend: The Toys are Back on Top…Again!

For the second week in a row, Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 finished on top of the weekend box office. This week, the film took in $57.9 million. Although this was just shy of half of what the film pulled in last week, it was still good enough to finish over $37 million ahead of the next highest total in this week’s countdown. The strong showing gives the film a two-week total of $236.9 million and incidentally has proven to be a hit with critics and audiences alike.

In second place is the horror sequel Annabelle Comes Home, which debuted with $20.4 million over the weekend and a $31.2 million opening. Just behind that is the Beatles-inspired fable Yesterday which also debuted this weekend with a decent showing of $17 million.

Meanwhile, Aladdin fell one spot to fourth, adding $9.3 million over the weekend to give the live-action version of the beloved animated film a six-week total of $305.6 million. Elsewhere, the animated sequel, The Secret Life of Pets 2, wrapped up its fourth week in release with a weekend tally of $7.1 million, to land it in the fifth spot of this week’s top ten, and a grand total of $131.2 million. Men in Black: International took a similar tumble to the sixth spot in this week’s top ten after finishing in fourth last week. The film added $6.6 million over the weekend to giving the studio what must be a disappointing three-week total of $65 million.

Disney expanded Avengers: Endgame this weekend again, which lifted the film to a $5.5 million showing, and a seventh-place finish. This gives the Marvel juggernaut a ten-week total of $841.3 million and a worldwide tally of $2.76 billion, making it second only to Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.6 million) domestically, and Avatar ($2.78 billion) worldwide.

The horror sequel/remake Child’s Play dropped from last week’s second-place finish to a less-than-impressive eighth place this week taking in $4.3 million to give it a two-week total of $23.4 million. Similarly, Rocketman fell back to Earth and finished in the ninth spot with $3.9 million, to give the Elton John biography a five-week total of $84.2 million.

Finally, the third film in the John Wick series, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum fell three spots to finish in the final spot in this week’s top ten with $3.2 million over the weekend. This gives the Keanu Reeves-led sequel a grand total of $161.3 million over its seven-week run.

Next week’s release of Spider-Man: Far from Home from Sony and Columbia will undoubtedly unseat one of this week’s top ten finishers and could shake up the final weekend box-office even further.

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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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