Box-Office Weekend: Thor Reigns Supreme

The latest film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor: Love and Thunder debuted atop the box-office weekend, beating the second-place film by nearly $100 million.

Thor: Love and Thunder easily took over the box-office as it opened to $143.0 million, giving the God of Thunder his bigest opening at the box-office to date. In a very distant second-place was last weekend’s top film, Minions: The Rise of Gru, which brought in $45.6 million over the weekend to raise its overall total to $210.1 million. Similarly being pushed down a spot was Top Gun: Maverick which dropped to third place in its seventh week of release with $15.5 million over the weekend and an overall total of $597.4 million. Also getting lowered a peg by the God of Thunder was the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll as Elvis finished in fourth place with $11.0 million. This gives the Baz Luhrmann film a three-week tally of $91.1 million. Adding $8.4 million over the weekend was enough to land Jurassic World Dominion in fifth place and raise its five-week total to $350.3 million.

In its third weekend of release, The Black Phone dropped a spot to finish in sixth place with $7.7 million. This gives the film a total to date of $62.3 million. Meanwhile, the Disney/Pixar film Lightyear landed in seventh-place with $22.9 million over the weekend. The film now sports a total to $112.3 million over the last four weeks. finished in sixth-place with $7.9 million over the four-day weekend, giving the film a three-week total of $106.7 million. Eighth place was claimed by the weekend’s second debut on the top ten, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. The animated film brought in $340,000 over the weekend to lift its three-week total to $963,000. Falling one spot to finish in ninth-place was the second Marvel film in the top ten, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which added $262,000 to give the film a ten-week total of $411.1 million. Finally, Mr. Malcolm’s List managed to hold onto the final spot of the top ten with $245,000 over the weekend, after finishing in sweventh-place last weekend. This brings the film’s two-week total to $1.6 million.

This weekend saw two films fall from the box-office top ten. Despite boasting a seven-week total of $31.8 million, the animated film The Bob’s Burgers Movie couldn’t hold onto a place in the top ten after finishing in ninth-place last weekend. The same went for Downton Abbey: A New Era which crept back into the top ten last weekend only to fall out again this weekend despite lifting the sequel’s seven-week total to $43.9 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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