Home
News
Box Office Weekend

Box-Office Weekend: Novocaine Takes Over a Numb Box Office

Mike Tyrkus
News

This week saw a new film debut atop the box-office weekend as Novocaine debuted as the number one film of the weekend, pushing last week’s top film, Mickey 17 to second place by the slim margin of $1.19 million.

Paramount Pictures International saw its latest release, Novocaine, debut atop the box-office weekend top ten with a total of $8.7 million to show for its opening weekend. This proved to be just enough to nudge last weekend’s top film, Mickey 17 to second place as it made $7.51 million in its second weekend of release, giving the Warner Bros. product an overall total of $33.3 million. Meanwhile, Black Bag debuted in third place over the weekend, bringing in $7.5 million for Focus Features. These two aforementioned debuts helped push Captain America: Brave New World down two spots to a fourth-place finish this weekend, where it made $5.5 million over the last three days. The Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product has now amassed a five-week total of $185.4 million. The third debut of the weekend, Ketchup Entertainment’s The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie claimed fifth place with $3.2 million earned over the course of the last three days.

The fourth, and final, debut of the weekend landed in sixth place as The Last Supper took in $2.82 million. This proved to be just enough to edge out Sony Pictures Releasing’s Paddington in Peru which brought in $2.8 million in its fifth weekend of release, giving the film an overall total of $41.3 million, despite the film dropping two spots in this weekend’s top ten. Also falling two spots this weekend was Dog Man which made $2.5 million in its seventh weekend of release for DreamWorks Distribution, giving the film a seven-week total of $92.8 million. Unfortunately, all of this activity caused Neon’s The Monkey to fall five spots to land in ninth place where it added $2.4 million over its fourth weekend in release to bring the Neon product’s overall total to $35.2 million. Similarly, Focus Features saw Last Breath bring in only $2.3 million in its third week of release as the film plummeted to tenth place this weekend after claiming third place just seven days earlier. This gives the film a three-week total of $18.6 million.

Again, four films were forced from the weekend box-office top ten over the last three days as the films that finished in seventh- through tenth-place last weekend all failed to make it into this weekend’s top ten. After twenty-two weeks in release, last weekend’s seventh-place film Anora has taken in $19.9 million for Neon, but couldn’t retain a spot in this weekend’s list. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has seen a thirteen-week tally of $252.4 million for Mufasa: The Lion King, despite it too dropping from this weekend’s list. With $2.6 million brought in over two weeks in release, Angel Studios’ Rule Breakers takes a bow then departs the top ten. Finally, Viva Pictures saw its Night of the Zoopocalypse amass a total of $1.9 million over the last two weeks before falling out of the top ten.

[box_light]

Weekend Box Office (March 14th – March 16th)

    1. Novocaine…$8.7 Million
    2. Mickey 17…$7.51 Million
    3. Black Bag…$7.5 Million
    4. Captain America: Brave New World …$5.5 Million
    5. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie…$3.2 Million
    6. The Last Supper…$2.82 Million
    7. Paddington in Peru …$2.8 Million
    8. Dog Man…$2.5 Million
    9. The Monkey…$2.4 Million
    10. Last Breath…$2.3 Million

[/box_light]

Mike Tyrkus

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.
Mike Tyrkus

Latest posts by Mike Tyrkus (see all)