By Ben MIller
To absolutely no one's surprise, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won the box office weekend. The sheer amount of money the film made might have been a bit surprising. With $120+ million, Spider-Verse had the second biggest opening weekend of 2023, only behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie. What's even more impressive is the improvement over its predecessor. Into the Spider-Verse only made $190 million its entire domestic run. This sequel should easily surpass that number.
| Weekend Box Office (actuals) June 2nd-4th 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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| WIDE (Over 800 Screens) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE |
 PAST LIVES |
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1 🔺★ SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE $120.6 *NEW* 4,313 screens |
1 🔺 ★ PAST LIVES $232k *NEW* 4 screens |
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2 THE LITTLE MERMAID $41.4 (cum. $187) 4320 screens |
2 🔺 THE ROUNDUP: NO WAY OUT (Korea) $189k *NEW* 41 screens |
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3 🔺 THE BOOGEYMAN $12.3 *NEW* 3,205 screens |
3 🔺 ★ SANCTUARY $166k (cum. $320k) 225 screens |
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4 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3 $10.6 (cum. $323.2) 3,580 screens |
4 KNIGHTS OF THE ZODIAC (Japan) $48K (cum. $1.08) 10 screens |
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5 FAST X $9.6 (cum. $128.8) 3,467 screens |
5 BLACKBERRY $39k (cum. $1.38) 55 screens |
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6 THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE $3.3 (cum. $566.3) 2,344 screens |
6 MASTER GARDENER $31k (cum. $595k) 47 screens |
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7 ABOUT MY FATHER $2.0 (cum. $8.8) 2,464 screens |
6 IT AIN'T OVER [Doc] $30k (cum. $400k) 39 screens |
 YOU HURT MY FEELINGS |
 THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS |
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8 THE MACHINE $1.7 (cum. $8.7) 2,409 screens |
7 ★ THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS (Italy) $21k (cum. $235k) 42 screens |
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9 YOU HURT MY FEELINGS $770k (cum. $3.0) 912 screens |
8 ★ SOMEWHERE IN QUEENS $15k (cum. $1.73) 23 screens |
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10 KANDAHAR $750k (cum. $4.2) 1,737 screens |
9 CHILE '76 (Chile) $13k (cum. $96k) 12 screens |
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only 10 movies in wide release :( |
10 ★ L'IMMENSITA (Italy) $9.8k (cum. $74K) 13 screens |
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11 🔺 FALCON LAKE $9.1k *NEW* 10 screens |
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12 ★ THE STARLING GIRL $7.1k (cum. $151K) 39 screens |
Don't forget Hollywood's most profitable genre: horror. The Boogeyman, based on the Stephen King book, managed a solid $12 million. These films have little competition, so I would expect to see it stick around for a while. On the limited/platform side, Celine Song's exceptional Sundance hit Past Lives actually beat Across the Spider-Verse in per-screen average, with a whopping $56k per screen. It expands wide in a few weeks
Next weekend - The only competition for Across the Spider-Verse is Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. The better those films get post-Michael Bay, the lower their box office receipts. I would expect a Spider-Man repeat in first place.
What did you watch this weekend? - I had an ecclectic mix of genres. I was able to knock out a Best Picture blindspot with Laurence Olivier's 1948 version of Hamlet, as well as Joanne Woodward's exceptional lead performance in Rachel, Rachel. But, I also watched Dungeons & Dragons and The Money Pit. I also rewatched Clint Eastwood's most underrated film, A Perfect World