Box-Office Weekend: Woman King Dethroned

Last weekend’s top film, The Woman King, was knocked to a second-place finish this box-office weekend by newcomer Don’t Worry Darling which bested the Viola Davis vehicle by $8.1 million.

Director Olivia Wilde’s latest film, Don’t Worry Darling sported a solid debut atop the weekend box-office with $19.2 million. Meanwhile, The Woman King added $11.1 million over the weekend to bring its two-week total to $36.3 million and a solid finish in second place. The re-release of Avatar managed to pull in $10.0 million to allow it to strengthen its claim to the number four spot on the list of top lifetime domestic grosses with $770.5 million. Last weekend’s second-place finisher, Barbarian, fell to fourth place with $4.8 million over the weekend. This gives the film a three-week tally of $28.4 million. Similarly, Pearl fell from third to fifth this weekend with a showing of $1.9 million. This brought the film’s two-week total to $6.7 million.

Falling two spots to finish in sixth-place was See How They Run with $1.9 million to show over the weekend. This gives the film a two-week haul of $6.1 million. Dropping a couple spots to finish in seventh-place was Bullet Train which brought in $1.8 million in its eighth weekend of release. This gives the film a total of $99.2 million to date. Only dropping one spot in the top ten was the animated DC League of Super-Pets which took in $1.8 million in its ninth weekend in release to claim the eighth spot of the countdown and lift its overall total to $90.0 million. Precipitously falling three spots to finish in ninth-place over the weekend was Top Gun: Maverick with $1.6 million. However, this did bring the film’s eighteen-week total to $711.6 million and a solid hold on fifth place on the list of top lifetime domestic grosses. Finally, last weekend’s penultimate finisher, Minions: The Rise of Gru took possession of the tenth spot of the weekend box office with $1.0 million. This gives the film a thirteen-week total of $365.5 million.

Only two films were pushed from the box-office weekend the past three days. After bringing in $23.1 million in its first five weeks in release, last weekend’s eighth-place finisher The Invitation departed the top ten. The David Bowie documentary, Moonage Daydream blasts out of the top ten with a two-week total of $2.6 million after finishing in tenth-place last weekend.

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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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