Box Office Weekend: Wonder Woman Still Box Office Queen

In only its second week of release, the super heroine film Wonder Woman has crossed the $200 million mark earning $57.2 million over the weekend, easily besting the Tom Cruise-led monster-film The Mummy, which brought in a not-too-shabby $32.2 million. While positions may be switched worldwide, Wonder Woman is still the crème de la crème of the box office for a second week in a row stateside.

The Mummy did push last week’s second-place film, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, down to the third spot where it boasted $12.3 million, giving it a two-week total of $44.6 million. Sticking in the fourth-spot is box-office stalwart Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales with $10.7 million. The other super hero film in the top ten (sorry Captain Underpants), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 finished in fifth place with $6.2 million, bringing its six-week total to $366.4 million.

The low-budget horror film It Comes at Night finished in sixth-place bringing in $6 million which, while still a profit above the film’s less-than $5 million production budget was still shy of the expected $10 million opening. Baywatch saved another $4.6 million to bring its three-week total up to a rather disappointing $51.1 million. Meanwhile, the Kate Mara vehicle Megan Leavey managed to earn $3.8 million on just under 2,000 screens, which was good enough for eighth place.

The final two films in this week’s top ten include the latest entry to the Alien saga, Alien: Covenant with $1.8 million (bring its four-week total to an underwhelming $71.2 million) and Everything, Everything which brought in an additional $1.6 million to boost its four-week total to $31.7 million.

Next week brings the release of the latest from Disney/Pixar, Cars 3 as well as the horror release 47 Meters Down. Both of which should be able to take a place in some way in next week’s Top Ten.

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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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