Box-Office Weekend: Thor Again Bests Minions

The Marvel Cinematic Universe again claimed the box-office weekend as Thor: Love and Thunder held onto the top spot, vanquishing the second-place film by $20 million.

For the second consecutive weekend, Thor: Love and Thunder stood atop the box-office weekend as it added another $46.0 million to raise its two-week total to $233.3 million. This bested second-place finisher Minions: The Rise of Gru by $20 million as the animated sequel brought in $26.0 million over its third weekend in release to give it a grand total of $262.6 million to date. Meanwhile, debuting in third place with $17.0 million was Where the Crawdads Sing. This pushed <em<>Top Gun: Maverick to third place with $12.0 million. However, since the film has amassed $618.0 million during its first eight weeks in release, odds are no one is worried about the drop to fourth place. In its fourth weekend, Elvis added $7.6 million to lift its total to $106.2 million and a fifth place finish.

Debuting in sixth place was the animated Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank which brought in $6.3 million during its first three days in release. This pushed last weekend’s sixth-place finisher, The Black Phone to seventh place as the horror film added $5.3 million over the weekend to lift its four-week tally to $72.0 million. Falling from fifth to eighth-place over the weekend was Jurassic World Dominion as it added $5.0 million in its sixth weekend of release. The film now sports a grand total of $359.7 million. The third debut of this weekend’s top ten, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris claimed the penultimate spot with a $1.9 million showing in its first weekend of release. Finally, last week’s seventh-place film, Lightyear finish in the tenth spot this weekend with $1.3 million. That film now lays claim to a five-week total of $115.5 million.

Three films took leave from the box-office top ten this weekend. After finishing in eighth place last weekend, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On did not make the final cut this weekend, but still has $1.7 million to show for its four weeks in release. Meanwhile, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness also gave up its position in the top ten after amassing an eleven-week tally of $411.2 million. Finally, last weekend’s tenth-place film, Mr. Malcolm’s List, dropped from the top ten after putting together a three-week total of $1.8 million.

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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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