Box-Office Weekend: Thieves Dethrones the King

After climbing to the top spot of the box-office weekend last week, Mufasa: The Lion King succumbed to newcomer Den of Thieves: Pantera this weekend and relinquished the number one spot by a margin of $2.3 million.

In its first weekend of release, Lionsgate’s Den of Thieves: Pantera claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend after bringing in $15.5 million. This was enough to push last week’s top film, Mufasa: The Lion King to second place where it took in $13.2 million, raising the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures film’s four-week total to $188.8 million. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 also dropped a spot, to finish in third with $11 million in its fourth weekend of release, bringing the Paramount Pictures’ product’s four-week total to $204.5 million. Focus Features similarly saw Nosferatu drop from third to fourth where it added $6.8 million over the weekend, bringing its three-week total to $81.8 million. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures also saw Moana 2 drop a place to land in fifth, where it added $6.5 million to raise its seven-week total to $434.9 million.

In its eighth weekend in release, Universal Pictures’ Wicked dropped a spot to take over sixth place with $5.0 million, while raising its overall total to $458.9 million for the studio. Meanwhile, A Complete Unknown lost ground and fell to seventh place where it took in $5.0 million to finish just south of Wicked in placement on the top ten. The Searchlight Pictures product now sports a three-week total of $50.8 million. After holding its ground in seventh place last weekend, A24’s Babygirl added another $3.1 million this weekend, but couldn’t hold onto seventh place and instead fell to eighth. Still, the film boasts a three-week total of $21.7 million for the studio. In its first week of release, Game Changer debuted in ninth place with $2.1 million over the weekend. Lastly, Roadside Attractions enjoyed The Last Showgirl cracking the top ten in its fifth week of release with $1.4 million earned over the last three days. This raises the film’s overall total to $1.5 million.

Three films were bounced out of the top ten this weekend as last week’s eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-place films all failed to crack this week’s list. After eight weeks in release, Paramount Pictures saw Gladiator II bring in a total of $171 million. Meanwhile, after four weeks in release, Angel Studios’ Homestead departs with $19.3 million in the bank. Finally, after three weeks in release, The Fire Inside brought in a total of $7.9 million for Amazon MGM Studios before taking a bow and leaving the top ten behind.

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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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