After four consecutive weekends, a new film sits atop of the box-office weekend top ten as Blue Beetle debuted $3 million ahead of previous champion Barbie.
In its first weekend of release, Blue Beetle claimed the top spot of the top ten this box-office weekend with a total of $25 million. This was enough to push Barbie to second place after four weeks atop the top ten. Despite losing the top spot this weekend to Blue Beetle, Barbie still took in $22 million and brought it’s five-week total to $567 million. This puts it just $6.98 million behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie to take over as the highest domestic grossing film of the year. Dropping a spot to finish in third, Oppenheimer made $11 million over the weekend to raise its five-week total to $285 million. Meanwhile, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem fell to fourth place with $8.4 million in its third week of release. This gives the film an overall total of $88 million. The second debut of the weekend, Strays, claimed fifth place by bringing in $8.3 million over the weekend.
Falling two spots to finish in sixth place over the weekend, Meg 2: The Trench added $6.7 million to its coffers to bring the film’s three-week total to $67 million. Holding firm in seventh place with $3.2 million over the weekend, Talk to Me raised its four-week total to $37 million. Last weekend’s sixth-place film, Haunted Mansion dropped two spots to finish in eighth this weekend with $3 million. This gives the film a four-week total of $59 million. Also standing firm in its previous position was Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which brought in $2.7 million to lay claim to ninth place over the weekend. The film now has a six-week tally of $165 million. Finally, after debuting in fifth place last weekend, The Last Voyage of the Demeter dropped all the way to tenth this weekend with $2.5 million, giving the film an overall total of $11 million.
Two films were pushed from the box-office weekend top ten over the last three days. After bringing in $177.6 million over the last seven weeks, Sound of Freedom failed to crack the top ten following an eighth-place finish last weekend. With an eight-week tally of $173.6 million, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny isn’t exactly a failure, but it did also fall out of the top ten this weekend.
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Weekend Box Office (August 18th – August 20th)
- Blue Beetle…$25 Million
- Barbie…$22 Million
- Oppenheimer…$11 Million
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem…$8.4 Million
- Strays…$8.3 Million
- Meg 2: The Trench…$6.7 Million
- Talk to Me…$3.2 Million
- Haunted Mansion…$3 Million
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One…$2.7 Million
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter…$2.5 Million
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