Box-Office Weekend: Weapons Leads Shake-Up

A new film took over the box-office weekend as Weapons debuted in first place by a margin of $13.5 million.

In its first weekend of release, the Warner Bros. release of Weapons took in $42.5 million for the studio. This proved more than enough to relegate the new film from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures entitled Freakier Friday to a second-place finish where it made $29 million for the studio. These debuts pushed last weekend’s top film, The Fantastic Four: First Steps to third place where it added $15.5 million in its third week of release, bringing its overall total to $230.4 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Similarly, Universal Pictures saw The Bad Guys 2 drop two spots to finish in fourth with $10.4 million earned in its second weekend of release. This gives the film an overall total of $43.4 million. Meanwhile, The Naked Gun also fell two spots to land in fifth place where it brought in $8.4 million for Paramount Pictures International, giving thee film a two-week total of $33 million.

Continuing the trend of films falling two spots from last weekend’s top ten, Superman found itself in sixth place where it earned $7.8 million for Warner Brothers. This gives the film a five-week total of $331.2 million. Universal Pictures saw Jurassic World: Rebirth land in seventh place with $4.7 million after claiming fifth seven days ago. This brings the film’s six-week total to $326.8 million. Only falling one spot to land in eighth place with $2.8 million this weekend was F1: The Movie. This brings the Warner Bros. product’s seven-week total to $178.6 million. Dropping three spots this weekend, Neon’s Together fell from sixth to ninth where it brought in $2.6 million for the studio in its second week of release, giving the film a total of $17.2 million. Finally, Sketch managed to crack the top ten by bringing in $2.5 million for Angel over the course of its first weekend in wide release, giving the film an overall total of $5 million.

For the past four weeks, the films in the eighth- through tenth-places in the previous weekend’s list failed to crack the current weekend’s top ten. This weekend saw I Know What You Did Last Summer leave the top ten with a four-week total of $31.4 million taken in for Sony Pictures Releasing. Meanwhile, Paramount Pictures International’s Smurfs made $30.3 million for the studio over its four weeks in release. Finally, after nine weeks in release, How to Train Your Dragon has made $261.6 million for Universal Pictures International.

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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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