Box-Office Weekend: Wonka Repeats

Holding onto the top spot of the box-office weekend by $2.4 million, allowed Wonka to repeat as the big winner for a second consecutive week.

With $14.4 million over the weekend, Wonka managed to hold onto the top of the weekend box-office top ten, albeit by a slimmer margin than last weekend. The Warner Bros. product now sports a four-week total of $164.7 million. Debuting in second place was Night Swim from Universal Pictures International with $12.0 million. This pushed Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom down a spot where it finished in third place with $10.6 million over the weekend. This gives the Warner Bros. film a three-week total of $100.0 million. Meanwhile, the Universal Pictures product Migration landed in fourth place where it added $10.3 million over the weekend, lifting its three-week total to $77.8 million. Holding its ground and finishing in fifth place over the weekend was Anyone But You with $9.5 million. This gives the Columbia Pictures offering a three-week tally of $43.7 million.

Similarly holding steady in sixth place was the George Clooney film, The Boys in the Boat which again landed in sixth place where it brought in $6.0 million, giving it a two-week tally of $33.9 million. Falling three spots to land in seventh-place this weekend as The Color Purple with $4.8 million. This gives the Warner Bros. film a two-week total of $54.6 million. Also sliding down a spot was The Iron Claw which finished in eighth-place this weekend with $3.9 million, giving the A24 film a three-week total of $24.3 million. After finishing in eighth-place last weekend, Ferrari fell to ninth this weekend where it added $2.5 million to bring its two-week total to $16.0 million for Neon. Finally, after falling out of the top ten last weekend, Poor Things crept back into the top ten, finishing in the final spot where it added $2.0 million, bringing the film’s five-week total to $14.2 million for Searchlight Pictures.

The last three days witnessed two films being forced from the box-office weekend top ten. After eight weeks, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes leaves the top ten with a total of $163.8 million brought in for Lionsgate Films. The GKIDS product, The Boy and the Heron, takes leave of the top ten after amassing $39.6 million for the studio.

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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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