Box Office Weekend: The Upside Sees, Well, the Upside

In its third week of release, the Aquaman juggernaut was felled by upstart The Upside, which bested it by approximately $2.3 million over the weekend. The Upside debuted on top of the weekend box office with $19.6 million. Meanwhile, Aquaman added another $17.3 million to lift its four-week tally to $287.9 million. Despite losing the top spot on the domestic box office, Aquaman did manage to exceed $1 billion in global returns so there probably isn’t too much crying over at the headquarters of the DC Extended Universe.

Another new film this week, the family-friendly A Dog’s Way Home debuted in third place with a weekend haul of $11.3 million. The animated Sony/Marvel film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse held firm in the fourth spot adding $9 million to lift its five-week total to $147.8 million. The horror film Escape Room dropped from second place to fifth this week as it brought in just $8.9 million compared to last week’s debut tally of $18 million.

In its fourth week of release, Mary Poppins Returns took in $7.2 million but fell from the third spot to sixth. But, things still look shiny for the singing nanny as she’s just passed the $150 million mark. Bumblebee also dropped this week, finishing in the seventh spot with $6.8 million over the weekend and a four-week total of $108.5 million.

In its third week of release, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic, On the Basis of Sex starring Felicity jones, cracked the top ten by bringing in $6.2 million. Clint Eastwood and The Mule held onto a spot in the top ten with $5.5 million, which was good enough for the ninth spot this week. Finally, Vice fell from seventh to tenth with $3.3 million during its third weekend while raising its total to $35.9 million.

Finally, Jennifer Lopez and Second Act took leave of the top ten this week, as did Holmes and Watson and Ralph Breaks the Internet. Next week should be another shakeup as M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, Glass, debuts.

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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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