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The War with Grandpa Takes the Box-Office Weekend

Mike Tyrkus
Robert De Niro and Oakes Fegley in The War with Grandpa

Robert De Niro and Oakes Fegley in "The War with Grandpa."

Audiences returned to movie theaters this weekend and the winner was the new family comedy from 101 Studios and Brookdale Studios, The War with Grandpa, starring Robert De Niro and Oakes Fegley. The film debuted at the top of the box office over the weekend with $3.6 million. Check out a new clip from the film above.

In a distant second-place, well a full $1.5 million behind The War with Grandpa at least, was Tenet from Warner Bros., which gave up the top spot for the first time in five weeks. Despite conceding the top spot, the latest mind-bending cinematic trip from director Christopher Nolan added $2.1 million to lift its total to $48.3 million.

The re-release of Hocus Pocus from the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures managed to secure third place adding $1.2 million to five it a two-week tally of $3.1 million. Falling one spot, was 20th Century Studios’ The New Mutants, which took in $705,822 over the weekend to raise its seven-week total to $22 million.

Last week’s fourth-place film, Solsitce Studios’ Unhinged dropped to fifth place with $682,819 over the weekend, giving the film a nine-week total of $19.4 million. The rest of the weekend’s box-office performances can be found below.

Weekend Box Office (October 9th – October 11th)

  1. The War with Grandpa…$3.6 Million
  2. Tenet…$2.1 Million
  3. Hocus Pocus…$1.2 Million
  4. The New Mutants…$705,822
  5. Unhinged…$682,819
  6. Coco…$210,000
  7. Infidel…$205,602
  8. Yellow Rose…$150,330
  9. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back…$145,000
  10. Possessor Uncut…$143,752

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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