Box-Office Weekend: Wick Slays Competition

Keanu Reeves and John Wick: Chapter 4 took out all competition as the film finished $63.1 million ahead of its nearest competitor in its first weekend of release.

Bringing in $73.5 million, John Wick: Chapter 4 easily took the top spot of the box-office weekend as it handily bested the second-place film, Creed III by slightly over $60 million. Creed III managed to climb a spot from last week to finish in second-place with $10.4 million. This brings the film’s four-week total to $140.9 million. Meanwhile, last weekend’s top film, Shazam! Fury of the Gods dropped to third place with $9.7 million over the last three days. This gives the super hero film a two-week tally of $46.3 million. Similarly falling two spots to lay claim to fourth place was Scream VI which added $8.4 million this weekend to raise its three-week total to $89.9 million. This activity pushed 65 from fourth to fifth-place where it brought in $3.3 million to bring its three-week total to $27.8 million.

Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania landed in sixth place with $2.4 million, dropping a spot from last weekend, but still sporting a six-week total of $209.9 million. Cocaine Bear fell a spot to finish in seventh-place with $2.1 million in its fifth week in release, giving it an overall total of $62.1 million. Jesus Revolution also slipped a spot to finish in eighth place with $2.0 million over the weekend. This gives the film a five-week total of $49.0 million. The comedy, Champions finished in ninth place with $1.5 million added to its three-week total to bring it to $13.6 million. Finally, in its fifteenth-week of release, Avatar: The Way of Water claimed the tenth spot of the box-office weekend with $1.4 million. This brings the film’s overall fifteen-week total to $680.4 million allowing it to pass Avengers: Infinity War to become the seventh highest-grossing domestic film of all time.

For the second week in a row, only one film was forced from the top ten as Puss in Boots: The Last Wish exited the weekend box office after amassing $184 million over the last fourteen weeks.

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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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