by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office (Nov 3-5) |
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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.🔺 Thor Ragnarok $121 REVIEW, YOUR QUEEN |
1.🔺 Let There Be Light $1.6 on 642 screens (cum. $4) |
| 2.🔺 A Bad Mom's Christmas $17 | 2.🔺 LBJ $1.1 on 659 screens |
| 3. Jigsaw $6.7 (cum. $28.8) . |
3.🔺 Florida Project $663k on 189 screens (cum. $3) REVIEW |
| 4. Boo 2! A Madea Halloween $4.6 (cum. $42.9) | 4.🔺 Loving Vincent $590k on 205 screens (cum. $3) |
| 5. Geostorm $3 (cum. $28.7) . |
5.🔺 Killing of a Sacred Deer $401k (cum. $908k) REVIEW |
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| 6. Happy Death Day $2.8 (cum. $52.9) | 6. 🔺 Lady Bird $375k on 4 screens REVIEW |
| 7. Thank You For Your Service $2.2 (cum. $7.3) | 7. 🔺 Goodbye Christopher Robin $353k on 262 screens (cum. $1.1) |
| 8. Blade Runner 2049 $2.2 (cum. $85.4) REVIEW | SHORTS | "BESTS" |
8. 🔺 Wonderstruck $235k (cum. $517k) REVIEW, PODCAST |
| 9. Only the Brave $1.9 (cum. $15.2) | 9. 🔺 Jane $229k on 55 screens (cum. $517k) CRITICS CHOICE WINNER |
| 10. The Foreigner $1.5 (cum. $31.9) | 10. 🔺 The Square $102k on 19 screens (cum. $207k) EFA NOMINATIONS |
🔺 = new or significant expansion numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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As expected Thor: Ragnarok was thunderous (sorry) at the box office. In fact, "the strongest Avenger" outdid himself this time nearly doubling (!) the first weekend gross of his kick-off back in 2011 and outdoing the previous installment, too. He even outdid Spider-Man Homecoming's opening weekend from earlier this summer! In other words this franchise is still growing. Or maybe people just realized that this film actually looked like FUN which its predeccesor The Dark World most decidedly was not.
Otherwise there's not much to report on this week's box office because the charts look almost identical to last week, especially at the arthouse where slow-and-steady theater count climbs is winning the race. Oscar hopeful The Florida Project and less expectedly the animated bio Loving Vincent, for example, add a couple dozen locations a week and keep chugging along impressively. Both have already amassed $3 million!
In happy news Greta Gerwig's directorial debut Lady Bird is off to a great start with crowded theaters at 4 locations. Other new films starting small were My Friend Dahmer (reviewed) at 4 locations, Last Flag Flying (reviewed) at 4 locations and Blade of the Immortal at 30 locations -- they all grossed around $40,000-45,000
WHAT DID YOU SEE THIS WEEKEND?