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Box-Office Weekend: Taylor Swift is Queen

Mike Tyrkus
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A new film claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend as Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl debuted $21.9 million ahead of the second-place film of the weekend’s top ten.

Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a ShowgirlDuring the course of its opening weekend, the latest from Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl brought in $33.0 million, which proved more than enough to take over the top spot of the box-office weekend. This pushed las weekend’s top film, One Battle After Another to second place where it managed $11.1 million in its second weekend of release, bringing its overall total to $42.8 million. Meanwhile, A24’s The Smashing Machine debuted in third place where it took in $5.2 million, despite dropping two spots since last weekend. Universal Pictures International saw Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie drop two places to land in fourth place where it took in $5.2 million, bringing the films’ two-week total to $21.6 million for its studio. This all pushed The Conjuring: Last Rights from fourth to fifth-place, where it made $4.1 million for Warner Bros. to bring its five-week total to $167.8 million.

Falling from third- to sixth-place this weekend, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle took in $3.5 million over the weekend to bring the film’s four-week total to $124.6 million for Sony Pictures Releasing. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures enjoyed the 2025 re-release of Avatar: The Way of Water beginning with a seventh-place finish resulting in $3.2 million added to the film’s worth. Dropping three spots to claim eighth place, Lionsgate’s The Stranger: Chapter 2 which made $2.8 million for the studio over the weekend, and $10.7 over its first two weeks in release. Ninth place saw the debut of IFC Films’ release of Good Boy, which made $2.3 million over the course of its first few days in theaters. Finally, after a seventh-place finish last weekend, the Lionsgate release of The Long Walk dropped to tenth place where it added $1.7 million over the weekend, to lift its four-week total to $31.9 million.

Yet again, four films lost their battle to remain on the top ten this box-office weekend. After a sixth-place finish last weekend, Universal Pictures International saw Him fall completely out of the top ten despite a three-week total of $23.4 million under its belt. Meanwhile, the Focus Features release Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale departed the top ten after an eighth-place finish last weekend and amassing $42.3 million over the last four weeks. The special re-release of the Sam Raimi trilogy of “Spider-Man” films, Spider-Man/Spider-Man 2/Spider-Man 3, took in $2.3 Million during its weekend in theaters seven days ago. Finally, after three weeks in release, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey boasts a cumulative total of $6.6 million for Sony Pictures Releasing.

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Weekend Box Office (October 3rd – October 5th)

    1. Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl…$33.0 Million
    2. One Battle After Another…$11.1 Million
    3. The Smashing Machine…$6.0 Million
    4. Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie…$5.2 Million
    5. The Conjuring: Last Rites…$4.1 Million
    6. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle…$3.5 Million
    7. Avatar: The Way of Water 2025 Re-release…$3.2 Million
    8. The Strangers: Chapter 2…$2.8 Million
    9. Good Boy…$2.3 Million
    10. The Long Walk…$1.7 Million

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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.
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