Box-Office Weekend: Tom Cruise on Top Again

After ceding the top spot of the box-office weekend to Jurassic World Dominion for the last two weeks, Tom Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick bested Elvis by the slimmest of margins to claim the top of the box-office weekend.

In its fifth weekend of release, Top Gun: Maverick reclaimed the top of the box-office weekend with $30,500,176 over the weekend. This was just enough to relegate newcomer Elvis to second place with $30,500,000. Meanwhile, last week’s first-place film, Jurassic World Dominion finished in third place with $26.4 million to bring its three-week total to $302.8 million. The second debut of the weekend, the horror film The Black Phone landed just behind that in fourth place with $23.4 million to show for its opening weekend. This dropped Lightyear to fifth place with $17.7 million after a second-place finish last weekend. The Disney/Pixar film now has a two-week total of $88.8 million.

Falling two spots to finish in sixth place was the Marvel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness which added $1.7 million over the weekend to bring its eight-week total to $409.2 million. The film is now the 34th highest grossing domestic film. The third debut in the top ten of the weekend was the Indian Jug Jugg Jeeyo which made $725,000 in its first weekend of release. This pushed last weekend’s seventh-place finisher, Everything Everywhere All at Once to the eighth spot with $533,000. This gives the film a fourteen-week total of $66.1 million. Falling from fifth to ninth place was The Bob’s Burgers Movie which added $513,000 over the weekend to bring its five-week total to $31.0 million. Finally, last weekend’s sixth place film, The Bad Guys dropped to the tenth spot this weekend with $440,000. This gives the film a ten-week tally of $95.5 million.

Three films dropped out of the box-office top ten this weekend. The final three films in last weekend’s top ten were all pushed from this week’s list as Downton Abbey: A New Era (with $43.3 million over six weeks), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (with $190.7 million over twelve weeks), and Brian and Charles ($389,900 over four weeks) all departed.

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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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