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Box-Office Weekend: Uncharted Tops the Charts

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Yet again, three new films shake up the box-office weekend top ten as the new action/adventure feature starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, Uncharted, easily took first place with an impressive $44.2 million opening weekend.

Finishing $29.1 million ahead of the film in second place, Uncharted led what may have been the strongest weekend showing at the box office in quite some time. The new Channing Tatum film Dog debuted over the weekend in second place with $15.1 million. Climbing one spot to third place was Spider-Man: No Way Home adding $7.7 million to lift the film’s ten-week tally to $770.6 million as it officially passed Avatar to become the third highest grossing domestic film of all time. Falling from first to fourth was Death on the Nile which added $6.3 million over the weekend to boost its two-week tally to $25 million. Jackass Forever finished in fifth place, falling from second last week, with $5.2 million. The latest film in the series now sports a three-week total of $46.8 million.

Last weekend’s third-place film, Marry Me fell three spots to finish in sixth place with $3.7 million in its second week of release, raising its total take to $16.8 million. Meanwhile, last week’s sixth-place film, Sing 2 dropped one spot to seventh in its ninth week of release. The film added $2.8 million over the weekend to raise its total to $147.4 million. Holding its ground in eighth place over the weekend was the reimagined Scream which pulled in $2 million to boost its six-week total to $77 million. Last week’s fifth-place finisher Blacklight plummeted four spots to land squarely in ninth place, with $1.8 million over the weekend. This gives the film a two-week total of $7.1 million. Finally, the third debut of the weekend, Eight for Silver took tenth place with $1.7 million, just behind the aforementioned Blacklight.

Only three films were pushed from the box-office weekend top ten this week. Last week’s seventh-place film, Moonfall leaves the top ten in its third week of release with a total of $17.7 million. Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza leaves the top ten with a thirteen-week total of $15.5 million after claiming ninth place last weekend. Finally, The King’s Man disappears from this weekend’s list with a nine-week total of $37.1 million.

Weekend Box Office (February 18th – February 20th)

  1. Uncharted…$44.2 Million
  2. Dog…$15.1 Million
  3. Spider-Man: No Way Home…$7.7 Million
  4. Death on the Nile...$6.3 Million
  5. Jackass Forever…$5.2 Million
  6. Marry Me…$3.7 Million
  7. Sing 2…$2.8 Million
  8. Scream…$2.0 Million
  9. Blacklight…$1.8 Million
  10. Eight for Silver…$1.7 Million

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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