Box-Office Weekend: “Way of Water” Holds Lead

Despite some position jostling and a couple films being pushed from the top ten, the box-office weekend remained relatively secure as Avatar: The Way of Water held the top spot for a sixth consecutive weekend.

With $20.0 million earned this weekend, Avatar: The Way of Water solidified its claim as the thirteenth highest domestic grossing film of all time, with $598.3 million. The film held first place by a margin of $8.5 million over second-place finisher Puss in Boots: The Last Wish which climbed to second place over the weekend with $11.5 million, bringing its five-week total to $126.5 million. This pushed M3GAN to third place with $9.8 million over the weekend. The horror film now has a three-week total of $73.3 million. Debuting in fourth place was the thriller Missing with $9.3 million to show for its opening weekend. This debut pushed Tom Hanks and A Man Called Otto to fifth place in its fourth weekend as it added $9.0 million to brings its overall total to $35.3 million.

Sinking to sixth place was Plane with $5.3 million. This film now has a two-week tally of $19.5 million as it looks poised to leave the top ten in the not too distant future. Meanwhile, House party fell a spot to seventh earning $1.8 million over its second weekend to raise its overall total to $7.2 million. The second debut in this weekend’s top ten, Gekijôban Tensei shitara slime datta ken or That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond opened with $1.5 million over the weekend, just narrowly besting the ninth-place film by $0.2 million. The Whale similarly dropped a spot as it finished the weekend in ninth place with $1.28 million, bringing its seven-week total to $13.2 million. Finally, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever fell from seventh-place to the final spot of the weekend box office as it finished just behind The Whale with $1.25 million over the weekend. The film now lays claim to an eleven-week total of $451.7 million.

Two films were forced from the top ten this weekend as Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody fell off the list after finishing in eighth place last weekend and amassing $23 million during five weeks in release. Meanwhile, last weekend’d tenth-place film, Waltair Veerayya failed to make the cut this weekend after bringing in $1.1 million in its inaugural weekend of release.

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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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