Box-Office Weekend: Wonka Displaces Aquaman

There was a bit of rearranging over the box-office weekend as last weekend’s first- and second-place films swapped places this week. Wonka finished on top, besting Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom by $4.5 million.

In its third week of release, the Warner Bros. product Wonka retook the top spot of the top ten bringing in $24.0 million over the weekend. This gives the film a three-week tally of $134.9 million. Meanwhile, last weekend’s top film, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom dropped to second place where it added $19.5 million to raise its two-week total to $77.8 million for Warner Bros.. Holding its ground in third place was Universal Pictures’ Migration which added $17.2 million over the weekend to bring its two-week total to $54.3 million. Debuting in fourth place was the Warner Bros. offering The Color Purple, which made $13.0 million over the weekend, giving it an overall debut of $45.3 million. This dropped Anyone But You down a spot to a fifth-place finish where it brought in $9.0 million over the weekend for Columbia Pictures, giving the film a two-week total of $25.1 million.

The second debut of the weekend, The Boys in the Boat landed in sixth place where it garnered $8.3 million over the last three days and an overall debut of $21.9 million. This pushed A24’s The Iron Claw from sixth- to seventh-place this weekend where in brought in $5.0 million for the studio, giving it a two-week tally of $16.4 million. The third debut in this weekend’s top ten, Ferrari took eighth place with $4.1 million over the weekend, giving the film an overall total of $10.9 million for Neon. Dropping a spot to finish in ninth-place this weekend was The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes which made $2.9 million for Lionsgate Films in its seventh week of release, lifting its overall total to $159.9 million. Finally, after landing in seventh place last weekend, The Boy and the Heron dropped to the tenth spot this weekend where it brought it $2.5 million for GKIDS as well as a total of $36.0 million over the last four weeks.

This weekend saw only three films thrust from the top weekend box office. After one week in release, Salaar couldn’t hold onto its fifth-place finish last weekend and feel out of the top ten with a one-week total of $6.3 million. After five weeks, last weekend’s ninth-place film, Godzilla Minus One, drops from the top ten with an overall total of $45.7 million. Finally, after four weeks and a tenth-place finish last weekend, the Searchlight Pictures product, Poor Things falls from the top ten after amassing a total of $10.3 million.

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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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