Beauty & the Beast continues to be a cash machine for Disney Corp, already at nearly $700 million worldwide. Power Rangers fared the best of the new releases with a stronger than expected opening. Was that nostalgia driven or just people in the mood for campy schlock? My friends and I headed to the theater after a few drinks because we figured we shouldn't see it sober...
But then it was sold out. Campy schlock will have to wait.
Other new titles: Sci-fi thriller Life opened weakly but it's relatively low budget for a sci-fi picture (only $58 million) might help it eventually break even. CHIPs, a comedy adaptation of the late 70s early 80s TV series attracted even fewer takers and also terrible reviews. This makes us sad for Michael Peña who deserves leading roles and rarely gets them; this probably won't help on that front. In limited release (but still at a lot of theaters) the biggest title was the new Christian basketball drama Slamma Jamma.
TOP WIDE
01 Beauty & The Beast $88.3 (cum. $316.9) Review
02 Power Rangers $40.5 NEW
03 Kong: Skull Island $14.4 (cum. $133.5) Review
04 Life $12.6 NEW Review
05 Logan $10.1 (cum. $201.4) Review
06 Get Out $8.6 (cum. $147.4) Review
07 CHIPs $7.6 NEW
08 The Shack $3.7 (cum. $49)
09 Lego Batman $1.9 (cum. $170.8)
10 The Belko Experiment $1.8 (cum. $7.5)
TOP LIMITED
01 Slamma Jamma $1.6 NEW 502 screens
02 The Last Word $520k (cum. $971k) 380 screens
03 T2: Trainspotting $380k (cum. $612k) 59 screens
04 Wilson $330k NEW 310 screens
05 Sense of an Ending $270K (cum. $1.0) 235 screens Interview and Review
06 Phillauri $265k NEW 74 screens
07 Personal Shopper $225k (cum. $553k) 107 screens Review
08 Kedi $205k (cum. $1.7) 107 screens Review
09 A United Kingdom $185k (cum. $3.5) 159 screens
10 Badrinath Ki Dulhania $150k (cum. $1.8) 93 screens
I hit Life at the movie theater and at home gagged on Gaga on RPDR and finished Iron Fist. The latter was a total waste of 13 hours. Though it improved slightly in the middle by the end it was just as dramatically dull, terribly written, and badly acted (Finn Jones mostly... the others do what they can), as it was at the beginning. I will not be watching a second season if it gets one but I felt like I should finish out of respect to the other much better series its paired with. But if The Defenders (which will combine the four Netflix/Marvel series: Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones) is also this bad, I'm out!