A new film has taken the crown of the box-office weekend as The Equalizer 3 claimed first place by the considerable margin of $23.9 million.
With $34.5 million to show for its opening weekend, Columbia Pictures’ The Equalizer 3 easily claimed the top spot of the weekend box-office top ten. Holding steady in second place was Barbie with $10.6 million. The Warner Bros. product now boasts a seven-week total of $609.5 million, which also makes it the highest domestic grossing movie of the year by a margin of $34.6 million. Blue Beetle remained ensconced in third place with $7.3 million over the weekend, giving the Warner Bros. film a three-week total of $56.6 million. Last weekend’s top film, Gran Turismo, dropped to fourth place this weekend with $6.6 million. This gives the film from Sony Pictures Entertainment a two-week total of $28.7 million. Oppenheimer was forced to fifth place with $5.5 million over the weekend. The Universal Pictures film now boasts a seven-week total of $308.6 million.
Paramount Pictures’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem claimed sixth-place with $4.8 million over the last three days. The film now has $106.5 million to show for its five weeks in release. Meanwhile, in its second week of release, Orion Pictures’ Bottoms managed to crack the top ten with $3.0 million to land in seventh-place this weekend. This gives the film a two-week total of $3.7 million. Falling two spots to finish the weekend in eighth-place was Meg 2: The Trench which added $2.9 million, giving the Warner Bros. film a five-week total of $78.4 million. Also dropping double spots was Universal Pictures’ Strays which took ninth place with $2.5 million. This lifts the film’s three-week tally to $20.7 million. Finally, after narrowly missing last weekend’s top ten, Talk to Me managed to claim the final spot this weekend with $1.8 million, giving the A24 film a six-week total of $44.1 million.
Again, three films were pushed from the box-office top ten this weekend. The eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-place films from last weekend all dropped out of the weekend’s list. With a two-week total of $5.8 million, Retribution failed to make the cut this weekend; as did The Hill, which departs the top ten with a two-week total of $4.8 million. Finally, with a six-week tally of $64.1 million, Haunted Mansion fared a bit better than those previous two films, but was still forces from the top ten this weekend.
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Weekend Box Office (September 1st – September 3rd)
- The Equalizer 3…$34.5 Million
- Barbie…$10.6 Million
- Blue Beetle…$7.3 Million
- Gran Turismo…$6.6 Million
- Oppenheimer…$5.5 Million
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem…$4.8 Million
- Bottoms…$3.0 Million
- Meg 2: The Trench…$2.9 Million
- Strays…$2.5 Million
- Talk to Me…$1.8 Million
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