by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office (October 20th-22nd) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
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| 1. 🔺 BOO 2! A MADEA HALLOWEEN $21.6 new | 1.🔺 GOLMAAL AGAIN $1.0 on 265 screens new |
| 2. 🔺 GEOSTORM $13.3 new | 2. THE FLORIDA PROJECT $636k on 112 screens (cum. $1.3) REVIEW 1, REVIEW 2 |
| 3. HAPPY DEATH DAY $9.3 (cum. $40.6) | 3.🔺 LOVING VINCENT $391k on 114 screens (cum. $1.3) |
| 4. BLADE RUNNER 2049 $7.1 (cum. $74) REVIEW | SHORTS | "BESTS" | 4. MARK FELT $192k on 332 screens (cum. $491k) |
| 5. 🔺 ONLY THE BRAVE $6 new | 5. 🔺 BREATHE $155k on 311 screens (cum. $187k) |
| 6. THE FOREIGNER $5.4 (cum. $22.8) | 6. GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN $153k on 61 screens (cum. $232k) |
| 7. IT $3.5 (cum. $320.2) REVIEW | 5 TAKEAWAYS | 7.THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER $114k on 4 screens new REVIEW |
Another weekend that few studios will be celebrating, partially because there was so much competition with five new wide releases and five new platform releases...
Tyler Perry's Madea series continues to be a windfall, but this 8th film (the second Halloween themed entry) is the second worst opening in the series. The only Madea film to earn less in its opening weekend was the Christmas themed edition in 2013. The other big openers, both widely considered to be terrible movies, were far less successful: Geostorm had a dire opening given its $120 million budget, Only the Brave did only okay, and The Snowman didn't prove the draw that the bestselling book would suggest. Same Kind of Different as Me was the least popular new wide release but those Christian flicks tend to be inexpensively made so perhaps it will turn a profit.
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| 8. THE SNOWMAN $3.4 new REVIEW | 8. 🔺 HUMAN FLOW $82k on 28 screens (cum. $150k) REVIEW |
| 9. AMERICAN MADE $3.1 (cum. $45.5) | 9. 🔺 WONDERSTRUCK $68k on 4 screens new |
| 10. KINGSMAN 2 $3 (cum. $94.5) | 10. FACES PLACES $43k on 26 screens (cum. $163k) REVIEW |
| 11. THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US $3 (cum. $94.5) REVIEW | 10. 🔺 JANE $55k on 3 screens new |
| 12. 🔺 SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME $2.5 new | 10. STRONGER $36k on 84 screens (cum. $4.1) REVIEW |
🔺 = new or significant expansion numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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In the platform releasing world, The Florida Project continues to come up a winner with each expansion. Any second now it will double the domestic gross of Sean Baker's last scrappy winner Tangerine. A24's other new hit could be The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos's follow up to The Lobster. We'll see how word of mouth is but it had the weekend's best per screen average.
Unfortunately Todd Hayne's Wonderstruck (his first family friendly film) and the truly sensational French Oscar submission BPM (Beats Per Minute) had more tentative first weekends. Let's hope word of mouth kicks in for both. The worst news was probably reserved for the romantic disability drama Breathe starring Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy which added over 300 theaters but died at harsh death with an under $500 per screen average
WHAT DID YOU SEE THIS WEEKEND?