by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office (Dec 8-10) |
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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. Coco $18.4 (cum. $135.6) REVIEW | FEELING SEEN |
1.🔺 The Shape of Water $1.1 on 41 screens (cum. $1.3) CAPSULE | PODCAST |
| 2. Justice League $9.6 (cum. $212.1) REVIEW | 2.🔺 Darkest Hour $741k on 53 screens (cum. $1.1) CAPSULE | SECOND VISIT |
| 3. Wonder $8.4 (cum. $100.3) |
3.🔺 Man Who Invented... $687k on 720 screens (cum. $4.3) |
| 4.🔺 Disaster Artist $6.3 (cum. $7.9) REVIEW | 4.🔺 Call Me By Your Name $291k on 9 screens (cum. $1.3) SCREENPLAY | SEX SCENES |
| 5. Thor Ragnarok $6.2 (cum. $301.1) REVIEW, YOUR QUEEN |
5.🔺 I Tonya $264k on 4 screens REVIEW NEW |
With only 2 new movies (I Tonya and Just Getting Started) in a big movie-going month like December it was a dire weekend at the box office with the box office essentially looking the same as last week. Somebody will need to write a book some day on what happened to distribution in 2017...
This year has been so "off" from films staying in the top ten for weeks and weeks which weren't even considered hits (like Blade Runner 2049) to the jerky pattern of releases with weekends stuffed with 20 new movies and no time for audiences to get to know any of them and then suddenly weekends with nothing. Only 2 new films on a December weekend? Bizarre.
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| 6. Daddy's Home 2 $5.9 (cum. $91) | 6. 🔺 Wonder Wheel $155k on 47 screens (cum. $321k) PODCAST |
| 7. Murder on the Orient Express $5.1 (cum. $92.7) REVIEW | 7. Loving Vincent $137k on 145 screens (cum. $5.7) REVIEW |
| 8. 🔺 The Star $3.6 (cum. $32.2) |
8. My Friend Dahmer $129k on 110 screens ($1.1) REVIEW |
| 9. 🔺 Lady Bird $3.4 (cum. $22.2) REVIEW | PODCAST | 9. Florida Project $89k on 101 screens ($5) PERSONAL | Toronto's Best | Podcast | |
| 10. 🔺 Just Getting Started $3.2 NEW | 10. Titanic (ReRelease) $67k on 75 screens (cum. $659.3) |
🔺 = new or significant expansion numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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It wasn't all terrible news. Most of the Oscar hopefuls are performing well even though only people on the coasts can see them. They were all being as timid as possible before they have some "GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEE" or "SAG NOMINEE" tags to hang on their ad buys. Still it's perplexing that so few of them tried to take advantage of the calm before the storm like The Disaster Artist and Lady Bird did. Those movies will likely become A24's highest grossers. Lady Bird is almost there already. It just has to leap frog The Witch, Ex Machina and Moonlight and will likely pass all three by this time next week. Congrats!
WHAT DID YOU SEE THIS WEEKEND?