Box-Office Weekend: “Wakanda Forever” Retains Crown

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever held onto the top spot of the box-office weekend for the second week in a row by besting the second-place film by $58.3 million.

Finishing with approximately $112.7 million than it brought in last weekend, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever still managed to hold onto first place with $67.3 million over the weekend. This lifted the film’s two-week total to $288.0 million. Meanwhile, debuting in second place was the genre-bending The Menu with $9.0 million to show for its first weekend in release. Meanwhile, third place was claimed by the Fathom Events release of The Chosen, season three, episode one, “Homecoming,” which managed to bring in $8.2 million. Black Adam fell to fourth place from second last weekend with $4.5 million over the weekend, lifting its five-week total to $157.0 million. Similarly dropping two spots was Ticket to Paradise, as the Julia Roberts/George Clooney vehicle brought in $3.2 million to raise its five-week tally to $61.6 million.

Debuting in sixth-place was the drama She Said which brought in $2.3 million in its first weekend of release. Falling three spots to land in seventh place was the family-friendly Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile with $1.9 million. This gives the film a seven-week total of $43.2 million. Also dropping three spots was the horror film Smile which finished in eighth place over the weekend with $2.3 million, bringing its eight-week total to a surprising $104.6 million. Last weekend’s sixth-place film, Prey for the Devil, was relegated to a ninth-place finish with $935,000 over the last three days. This gives the film an overall four-week total of $18.4 million. Finally, after finishing in seventh last weekend, The Banshees of Inisherin managed to bring in $703,000 and claim the final spot of the top ten. This lifted the film’s five-week total to around $7.2 million.

Three films were dispatched from the box-office top ten this weekend as last week’s eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-place films all feel from this week’s list. After two weeks, One Piece Film: Red has earned $12.8 million before bowing out of the top ten. Six weeks into its release, Till has amassed a total of $8.5 million before succumbing to newer releases. Finally, in its seventh week of release, Tár has taken in a total of $4.9 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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