"Winter's War" didn't find summer-like grosses
Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 8:00PM Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all?
Oh, Charlize you're gorg but those beasts in Jungle Book are fairest to moviegoers, who plucked down another $60 million to watch dem pixels. And all those other computer generated animals in Zootopia in their eighth weekend were also still going strong. Maybe you should have dissolved into birds more often? (With a budget north of $100 million, the opening of The Huntsman reminds Hollywood of a fairly obvious lesson: not every hit is meant to morph into a cash cow franchise by sequelizing it.)
TOP FIVE
01 The Jungle Book $60.8 (cum. $191.4)
02 The Huntsman: Winter's War $20 NEW Review
03 Barbershop: The Next Cut $10.8 (cum. $36)
04 Zootopia $6.6 (cum. $316.4) Reviewish
05 The Boss $6 (cum. $49.5) Review
Susan Sarandon in The MeddlerTHE NEW RELEASES
09 Compadres $1.3 on 368 screens
11 A Hologram for the King $1.2 on 401 screens Review
20 Elvis & Nixon $450K on 381 screens Review
38 The Meddler $15K on 4 screens Review
40 Tale of Tales $9K on 2 Screens Review
42 How to Let Go of the World and... $6K on 1 screen
43 Men & Chicken $2K on 2 screens
Outside the top ten and new release Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead and Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! risked adding a few hundred screens and took in a good $600K+ each while Sing Street and Green Room inched into a couple dozen more theaters with solid per screen averages.
What did you see this weekend ?? The extra question mark is in homage to Everybody Wants Some !! for which we've published both negative and positive reviews. I saw it this weekend and was so glad I finally got around to it.
Reader Comments (17)
Sadly, nothing interested me in cinemas. Charlize, Emily and Jessica in one big dud sequel. The Meddler is a perfect title for Susan Sarandon. Better Call Saul is very entertaining. Streep bio is a good read.
I just got back from A Star is Born ('54) in glorious 4K on the big screen, so it was a very successful day.
I watched Chilean film Much Ado About Nothing as part of the Spanish film festival in Sydney. I really want to watch The Jungle Book and Midnight Special next.
I saw 'Truth' and 'Eye in the Sky'.
'Truth' was funnier than I thought it would be at times. I liked it. Spotting Aussie character actors in it was cool too.
I reeeeeallly enjoyed 'Eye in the Sky'. A great thriller. I hope that it is remembered when awards season rolls around. Aaron Paul and Aisha Takow in particular were very good. Aaron Paul's voice cracking when he yelled 'rifle, rifle, rifle!' was heartbreaking/breathtaking.
I am also six episode into 'Making a Murderer' and I have the final two OJ episode left to watch as well. It's all crime all the time on my tv at the mo.
Just saving my time and money until CIVIL WAR at this point.
Jane Got a Gun opened in the UK so the 3 year wait for a Natalie Portman film had to be filled.
Actually not as terrible as the troubled production history might have implied, it mainly felt oddly timid, unsure whether it was about the love triangle or the 3rd act siege with a result that neither felt satisfying (and the overuse of flashbacks didn't help).
I watched Midnight Secial The Witch. And from the Monsieur Lazhar director i saw C'est pas moi, je le jure wich gave me a Xavier Dolans Mommy feel.
Finally watched "Star Wars: Force Awakens" as the BF and I were waiting to see it in theaters (and luckily one AMC was still showing it despite the DVD release).
DYING to hear your take on Everybody Wants Some, Nathaniel.
I watched Roller Boogie, a 1979 "classic" with Linda Blair. 'nough said.
I saw Everybody Wants Some!!, which I loved. I was smiling all through the movie.
I also caught up on Sisters, which was better than I expected, although I probably would have been disappointed if I saw it in the theater. It also seemed oddly all over the place in its generational references. If you're going to do a movie about two sisters who graduated high school in the late '80s/early '90s, you should be aware of the major pop culture of the period.
Echo Park. Been meaning to catch up with this sweet, small film, but Elvis Mitchell's interview with the star, Tony Okungbowa, spurred me on.
Another quick trip to NYC, so saw Laura Benanti in She Loves Me (just ok, although I could watch a whole play with her just jumping on the bed--when is someone going to write a musical His Girl Friday for her?) and a preview performance for the destined-to-be-the next-big-family-musical Tuck Everlasting, with the great belter Carolee Carmello. This is such a great show: terrific songs and dance numbers, a plucky 11 year old star, fantastic voices, bittersweet story--just a super enjoyable night at the theater.
No movies this weekend (but hit five shows on Broadway)! Glad you loved the fantastic Everybody Wants Some!
I hope we can sustain Sarandon's Meddler buzz through the year. That title, though...yowch.
She's transitioned from Hollywood's finest leading lady to its finest character actress over the last 20 years with no recognition. It's the worst kind of ageism when someone other than Helen Mirren or Meryl Streep works consistently in interesting, diverse projects and she can't get arrested by a precursor.
I'm not saying she's deserved to *win* another Oscar, but if you round up all the supporting work she's done since 1996, any one of them would make a solid nomination.
I saw The Jungle Book which I absolutely loved! I didn't have a whole lot of expectations going in, but I had a lot of fun with it. Good thing I skipped The Huntsman: Winter's War I suppose.
Hayden W.: Yeah, why would you use that title for anything other than "elder Scooby-Doo character"?
I was like, I'll watch anything with Emily Blunt, and I'll definitely watch anything with Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, and Charlize Theron but Boy-oh-Boy the reviews are DREADFUL, should I waste money supporting crappy movies featuring my favorite actors or should my favorite actors stop appearing in crappy movies?