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Box Office Report: Let's Dance the Last Dance

By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | February 13, 2023 |

By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | February 13, 2023 |


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Tear off your shirt and dance into the Spring. That’s right, my friends, Magic Mike’s Last Dance opened this past weekend and took the top spot of the box office. It grossed $8.2 million from 1,500 theaters. That’s enough to take over James Cameron and M. Night Shyamalan but it’s pretty small by stripper Channing Tatum’s standards. The first movie opened in late-June and debuted with just over $39 million while the sequel, Magic Mike XXL, weirdly only opened to $12.8 million domestically. But expect this one to do well with at-home releases, and it’s now a major money-making brand for Channing and director Steven Soderbergh. They knew what they were doing.

Avatar: The Way of Water jumped from three to two and managed to make more this past weekend than the 25th-anniversary re-release of Titanic. Cameron’s best movie — yeah, I said it — took in an extra $6.4 million from 2,464 cinemas. Worldwide, this re-release has given the movie an extra $22.3 million in the bank. But that didn’t stop The Way of Water from leaping over it to become the third highest-grossing film of all time, with $2,213,519,731 to its name.

It’s still a fair way off from taking over Avengers: Endgame, which has over $2.797 billion in the bank. It won’t take over from Avatar but seriously, we’re all surprised it’s done this well. There was this strange sense around The Way of Water that it was doomed to ‘flop’, whatever that meant in terms of the mega-blockbuster. Yet becoming the third biggest movie ever (not adjusting for inflation) is the sign of an unmitigated success.

It’s Valentine’s Day week, which usually means some sort of romantic-related release, but the only one on the roster is something called What About Love, which apparently has nothing to do with the song of the same name. Otherwise, the big releases are the noir adaptation Marlow, the weird public domain horror trashbag Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, and some superhero thing called Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. That’s not a word. Look, we need something to watch until Cocaine Bear.

You can check out the rest of the weekend box office here.