CNNWF - 'Elvis' edges 'Top Gun' in battle for box-office dollars

A heated weekend box-office battle came down to Sunday-night receipts and ... it turns out Elvis is still the King. Sunday estimates had two films in a weekend dead heat at $30.5M each - Elvis (NASDAQ:WBD), the new musical biography of Elvis Presley helmed by Baz Luhrmann, the director of films including Moulin Rouge and Strictly Ballroom; and Top Gun: Maverick (NASDAQ:PARA) (NASDAQ:PARAA), the sequel that's turned out to be star Tom Cruise's biggest hit. But final results favored Elvis, which hit a total of $31.1M, while Maverick landed at $29.6M, with each film in nearly 4,000 theaters. Each film surpassed the third-week take of Jurassic World Dominion (NASDAQ:CMCSA), which saw business fall off 55% week-over-week to land at $26.4M. And each of the top two films can count a victory: Elvis posted up strong for Warner Bros. (WBD) for a adult drama in a season of blockbusters, while Top

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'Elvis' edges 'Top Gun' in battle for box-office dollars