Box-Office Weekend: Twisters to the Top

A new film adorns the top of the box-office weekend as Twisters debuted $56.7 million ahead of the second-place film, last week’s top film Despicable Me 4.

Universal Pictures enjoyed an $80.5 million opening weekend for Twisters, the sequel to 1996’s Twister, as the film finished firmly affixed atop the top ten weekend box office. Meanwhile, last weekend’s top film, Despicable Me 4 was dropped to second place where it took in $23.8 million to bring its three-week total to $259.5 million for Universal Pictures. Holding its ground in third place, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product Inside Out 2 made $12.8 million to raise its six-week tally to $596.4 million. Last weekend’s second-place film, Longlegs, dropped to fourth place this weekend with $11.7 million, giving the film a two-week total of $44.7 million. Falling a spot to land in fifth place this weekend, Paramount Pictures’ A Quiet Place: Day One brought in $6.1 million to lift its four-week total to $127.6 million.

Also dropping a spot was the Columbia Pictures product Fly Me to the Moon, which finished in sixth place this weekend with $3.3 million, bringing its overall two-week total to $16.4 million. Bad Boys: Ride or Die fell from sixth to seventh place where it made $2.7 million for Sony Pictures Releasing in its seventh week of release to raise its total to $189.3 million for the studio. The second debut of the weekend, Bad Newz claimed eighth place with $1.1 million to show for its first weekend in release. Meanwhile, A24’s MaXXXine fell a spot to ninth place where it added $819,242 over the weekend, raising its three-week total to $13.9 million. Lastly, after dropping out of the top ten last weekend, The Bikeriders crept back into this week’s box-office weekend with $701,000, bringing the Focus Features film’s five-week total to $21.2 million.

As happened last week, three films were again pushed out of the top ten weekend box office. After finishing in seventh place last weekend, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 couldn’t crack the top ten this weekend, instead settling for a four-week total of $28.5 million for Warner Brothers. Angel Studios’ Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot failed to retain its spot after finishing in ninth place last weekend. Still, the film brought in $11.1 million for the studio during the last three weeks. Finally, the 2024 re-release of The Lion King brought in a total of $1.9 million over the last two weeks for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures after making its debut in the top ten last weekend.

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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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