How did you spend Thanksgiving weekend? I watched Moana again with the honorary nieces, saw a preview of Things to Come (yet another Isabelle Huppert triumph) with cinephile friends and caught up with a screener or two.
What did you see over the holiday weekend? The actual box office results are after the jump...
TOP WIDE
800 screens +
01 Moana $56 (cum. $82) NEW Review
02 Fantastic Beasts... $45 (cum. $156)
03 Doctor Strange $13.7 (cum. $205.7) Review
04 Allied $12.7 (cum. $17.7) NEW Review
05 Arrival $11.4 (cum. $62.5) Review and Podcast
It was a great weekend for Disney with Doctor Strange breaking Marvel "first solo film" records and Moana topping the charts. The news was also incredible for Arrival which dropped only 5% (!!!) in its third weekend, suggesting that audiences are really talking about it. Things weren't so happy for Rules Don't Apply (reviewed) which failed to hit the top ten despite premiering on a holiday weekend and over 2000 screens. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (reviewed) fared even worse in its second wide weekend, earning less than $200 per screen it played on. The $40 million production has only earned $1.5 million at the US box office. Ouch.
TOP LIMITED
under 800 screens excluding previously wide releases
01 Loving $1.6 (cum. $4) 421 screens Review and Podcast
02 Manchester by the Sea $1.2 (cum. $1.6) 48 screens Review, Second Take
03 Moonlight $1.2 (cum. $8.5) 618 screens Review and Podcast
04 Dear Zindagi $977K NEW 153 screens Review, Second Take
05 Nocturnal Animals $836K (cum. $1.6) 126 screens Review and Podcast
06 The Eagle Huntress $262K (cum. $908K) 64 screens Review
07 Lion $123K NEW 4 screens Review
08 A Man Called Ove $123K (cum. $3) 88 screens
09 Elle $117K (cum. $399K) 12 screens Review and Podcast
10 The Handmaiden $79K (cum. $1.6) 61 screens Podcast
As per usual the top players on limited screens are all your critical darlings, and whichever Bollywood picture happens to be opening that week -- this week that's the latest from reliable draw Shah Rukh Khan. Not charting on only 3 screens was Miss Sloane (reviewed) but hopefully that sees much wider expansion since it's essentially a mainstream entertainment, not an arthouse challenge!
Of note: The Handmaiden is already Park Chan Wook's highest grossing subtitled film in the US (that honor previously belonged to Oldboy in 2003) but if it hangs on to its screens for another week it'll also beat his biggest hit here, the English language Stoker.