Box-Office Weekend: “Wakanda Forever” Three-Peats

For a third consecutive week, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever held the top spot of the box-office weekend by a considerable margin. This weekend, it did so by leading the second-place film by $34 million.

Bringing in $45.9 million in its third weekend of release, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever held onto first place for the third weekend in a row. This brings the film’s overall domestic total to $367.7 million. Debuting in second place, was the first of five new additions to the top ten as the animated Strange World brought in $11.9 million over the weekend, for a total of $18.6 million since its release on Thanksgiving Day. In third place, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery debuted with $9.4 million over the weekend and a total of $13.3 million overla. Fourth place was claimed by Devotion, which debuted with $6.0 million over the weekend and $9.0 million overall. Dropping from second to finish in fifth place was The Menu which added $5.2 million over the weekend to bring its two-week total to $18.7 million.

Dropping two spots to finish in sixth-place was Black Adam which added $3.4 million over the weekend to bring its six-week total to $163.0 million. Debuting in the top ten in the seventh spot was Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans which brought in $2.2 million as it benefitted from a wider release over the weekend to bring its three-week total to $3.4 million. Also making a debut in the top ten was Bones and All which finished in eighth-place with $2.2 milllion and a two-week total of $3.7 million. Falling from fifth-place to ninth was the Julia Roberts/George Clooney film Ticket to Paradise which earned $1.9 million in its sixth-weekend of release to bring its overall total to $65.1 million. Finally, after finishing in third place last weekend, Homecoming dropped to tenth place with $1.6 million over the weekend, raising its two-week total to $13.5 million.

Half of last weekend’s films were banished from the top ten over the weekend as the films in the sixth through tenth spots were all sent packing. She Said departs after two weeks in release with a total of $4.3 million. Meanwhile, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile drops from the top ten after amassing $45.1 million over its first eight weeks of release. The horror film Smile departs the top ten with a nine-week total of $105.5 million. Prey for the Devil leaves after bringing in $19.1 million for the studio over five weeks. Finally, The Banshees of Inisherin departs the top ten with a six-week total of $7.9 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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