"Box Office Battle" is The Fly's weekly roundup of what movies topped the weekend's box office.
Sony (SONY) and Marvel's "Spider-Man: No Way Home" returned to number 1 in its sixth weekend, earning an estimated $14.1M from 3,705 locations for a domestic cume of $721M, the fourth-best showing of all time. The Sony and Marvel's superhero film also passed up 2019's "The Lion King" and 2015's "Jurassic World" to become the number 6 movie of all time worldwide with $1.69B in global ticket, not adjusted for inflation.
BOX OFFICE RUNNER-UPS: ViacomCBS (VIAC) subsidiary Paramount Pictures' "Scream" placed number 2 with another $12.4M. Behind it was Comcast (CMCSA) subsidiary Universal's "Sing 2" with $5.7M for the from 3,434 theaters. Universal's "Redeeming Love" placed number 4 with a $3.7M debut. Rounding out the top five, Disney's (DIS) "The King's Man" grossed a projected $1.8M from 2,360 locations.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:
Other publicly traded companies in filmmaking include AT&T (T) and Lionsgate's (LGF.A).
AT&T
-0.39 (-1.44%)
Comcast
-0.5 (-1.00%)
Comcast
+ (+0.00%)
Sony
-1.97 (-1.73%)
Lionsgate
-0.6 (-3.53%)
Lionsgate
-0.5 (-3.17%)
Disney
-10.225 (-6.93%)
Use PARA
-3.23 (-8.53%)
Use PARA
-2.45 (-7.27%)