Box-Office Weekend: The Woman King Is Crowned

A new film stands atop the box-office weekend as The Woman King debuted at number one, displacing last weekend’s top film, Barbarian and sending it to second-place by a margin of $12.7 million.

The Viola Davis starring The Woman King brought in $19.0 million in its first weekend of release, easily claiming the top spot as last weekend’s top film, Barbarian was able to muster a mere $6.3 million in its second weekend of release. Despite the fall to second-place, Barbarian still sports a two-week total of $20.9 million. Claiming third place was the second debut of the weekend, the horror prequel Pearl which took in $3.12 million over the weekend to narrowly best fourth-place finisher See How They Run which brought in $3.1 million in its first weekend of release. These debuts all forced Bullet Train to a fifth-place finish as it brought in $2.5 million in its seventh weekend of release to lift its grand total to $96.4 million.

This activity managed to push Top Gun: Maverick from the top five and into sixth place where it added $2.18 million over the weekend. This brings the film’s seventeen-week total to $709.1 million. Similarly, DC League of Super-Pets dropped from fifth to seventh-place over the weekend with $2.17 million. This gives the animated film a grand total of $87.9 million. Falling two spots to finish in eighth place over the weekend was The Invitation as the film managed to add $1.7 million during its fourth weekend in release to brings its total to $21.5 million. Holding steady in the ninth spot was the animated sequel Minions: The Rise of Gru, which added $1.3 million over the weekend. This gives the film a twelve-week total of $364.1 million. Finally, debuting in tenth-place over the weekend was Moonage Daydream with $1.2 million in its first weekend of release.

As happened last weekend, multiple films were thrust from the top ten. After finishing in second-place last weekend, Brahmastra Part One: Shiva left the top ten altogether with a grand total of $6.7 million to show for its work. Similarly, last week’s seventh-place film, Lifemark, departs the top ten with a two-week tally of $3.6 million. Meanwhile, after five weeks, Beast takes leave of the top ten with a total of $30.8 million. Finally, the re-release of Spider-Man: No Way Home added a total of $9.2 million to the film’s overall take as it too departs the top ten in its third week back in theaters.

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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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