Box-Office Weekend: Tron Reboots Box Office

A new assumed the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten as Tron: Ares debuted at number one, $25.5 million ahead of its closest competition.

In its first weekend of release, the third film in the “Tron” series, Tron: Ares, debuted in first place of the box-office weekend top ten, bringing in $33.5 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Meanwhile, Paramount Pictures International’s Roofman debuted in a very distant second-place with $8.0 million. Last weekend’s second-place finisher, One Battle After Another fell to third place where it took in another $6.7 million to bring the film’s three-week total of $54.5 million. The Universal Pictures International release Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie held its ground in fourth place where it added $3.4 million over the weekend to lift its three-week total to $26.4 million. Affirm Films then saw its Soul on Fire claim fifth place with a debut of $3.0 million over the weekend.

Dropping one spot to claim sixth place this weekend, The Conjuring: Last Rites managed to bring in $2.9 million for Warner Brothers, bringing the film’s six-week total to $172.4 million. Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Releasing saw Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle drop a spot to seventh place where it added $2.3 million over the weekend, lifting its five-week total to $128.6 million. Plummeting from a third-place finish last weekend, the A24 release, The Smashing Machine took in $1.8 million as it claimed eighth place this weekend, giving the film a two-week total of $9.8 million. Lionsgate saw The Strangers: Chapter 2 fall to ninth from eighth place last weekend as it added $1.6 million over the last three days to bring its three-week total up to $13.5 million. Finally, after a ninth-place finish a week ago, the IFC Films release, Good Boy fell to tenth place where it made $1.4 million for the studio, bringing its overall two-week total to $4.9 million.

Three films were pushed out of the top ten this box-office weekend. Last week’s top film, Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, couldn’t repeat this weekend as it was only a one-weekend release. Still, it managed to pull in $34.1 million. Meanwhile, the re-release of Avatar: The Way of Water brought in a total of $4.4 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures last weekend with it’s seventh-place finish. Finally, after five weeks in release, the Lionsgate product The Long Walk managed to bring in a total of $33.9 million before dropping out of the top ten.

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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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