What did you see this weekend? I caught up with Hacksaw Ridge and Krisha (which keeps winning "new generation" style awards) and went to a Pedro Almodóvar talk all of which we'll try to discuss very soon. Until the box office charts and, behind the scenes at the moment, podcast editing and Oscar chart revamping...
Not much changed at the box office this weekend with very few films opening but it's worth noting that Arrivalis proving to have very shapely legs. i.e. it's not dipping like you're supposed to dip each week and moved UP the chart this weekend indicating very good word of mouth...
TOP WIDE
01 Moana $28.3 (cum. $119.8) NEW Review
02 Fantastic Beasts... $18.5 (cum. $183.5)
03 Arrival $7.3 (cum. $73) Review and Podcast
04 Allied $7 (cum. $28.9) NEW Review
05 Doctor Strange $6.4 (cum. $215.3) Review
TOP LIMITED
under 800 screens excluding previously wide releases
01 Manchester by the Sea $2.3 (cum. $4.4) 156 screens Review, Second Take
02 Loving $997K (cum. $5.5) 446 screens Review and Podcast
03 Moonlight $915K (cum. $9.8) 574 screens Review and Podcast
04 Nocturnal Animals $686K (cum. $2.7) 127 screens Review and Podcast
05 Believe $602K NEW 639 screens
Outside of these charts Jackie premiered in 5 theaters. It's been, rather curiously, a non-starter in this first week of awardage missing both the NBR and the Critics Choice top tens for lesser films. Perhaps people can't take a grief-stricken political drama at this moment in our history? Let's hope it picks up steam next week. Meanwhile Huppert dropped another critical darling with Things to Come (in 3 theaters) to augment and not distract from (we hope) her Oscar campaign for Elle. Meanwhile Miss Sloane and Lion are treading water in very few theaters, waiting for their moment to expand.
NEXT WEEKEND... Miss Sloane will do that in a big way adding over 1500 screens while La La Land slips, not so quietly we presume, into its first 5 theaters. And THEN the Golden Globe nominations and SAG nods hit which a lot of these elusive films will try to use as a springboard for box office success as they go wide. We'll see!