By Nathaniel R
It was a battle for box office dominance in outer space as Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 and Aliens Volume 6 (shut up) faced off. The champion was those nasty acid-blooded face huggers rather than the comic bro huggers. Not that Drax and Starlord have anything to worry about having just crossed the $300 million mark domestically.
It's also worth noting that Demian Bichir has both #1 movies -- he has a small role in Alien Covenant and a big one in Lowriders, which logs a second week on top of the limited release chart.
Charts and a few more comments are after the jump...
| Weekend Box Office (May 19-21) | |
| W I D E | L I M I T E D |
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| 1.🔺 ALIEN: COVENANT (6) $36 NEW REVIEW | FRANCHISE |
1. 🔺 LOWRIDERS $1.1 (cum. $4.1) (365 screens) |
| 2. GUARDIANS (2) $35 (cum. $301.7) REVIEW |
2.🔺 NORMAN $620K (cum. $2.3) (373 screens) |
| 3.🔺 EVERYTHING EVERYTHING $12 NEW REVIEW |
3. THE WALL $321k (cum. $1.5) (524 screens) |
| 4. SNATCHED $5.3 (cum. $32.7) REVIEW |
4.🔺 THE LOVERS $300k (cum. $554.8) (105 screens) REVIEW |
| 5.🔺 DIARY OF WIMPY KID (5) $7.2 NEW REVIEW |
5.🔺 PARIS CAN WAIT $203k (cum. $334k | 23 screens) |
| 6. KING ARTHUR $6.8 (cum. $27.2) REVIEW |
6. A QUIET PASSION $202k (cum. $1.0) (130 screens) |
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| 7. FATE OF THE FURIOUS (8) $3.1 (cum. $219.8) SEQUEL RANK |
7.🔺 THE WEDDING PLAN $172k (cum. $218k | 53 screens) |
| 8. THE BOSS BABY $2.8 (cum. $166.1) REVIEW |
8. THEIR FINEST $150k (cum. $3.1) (160 screens) |
| 9. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST $2.4 (cum. $497.7) REVIEW | SCORE |
9.🔺 CHAMPION $87k NEW (31 screens) |
| 10. HOW TO BE A LATIN LOVER $2.2 (cum. $29.4) |
10. SLEIGHT $84k (cum. $3.8) (113 screens) |
| 11. GIFTED $765K (cum. $22.8) |
11. COLOSSAL $78K (cum. $2.8) (105 screens) REVIEW |
| 12. SMURFS: LOST VILLAGE $520K (cum. $43) |
12. THE DINNER $37k (cum. $1.2) (91 screens) |
| 🔺 = new or added screens numbers from box office mojo |
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Though The Boss Baby and Beauty and the Beast have both been holding the family audience well but they're likely to finally fall off the chart next week since they're now taking big theater count hits and two major blockbuster hopefuls hit this next week (Baywatch and Pirates 4).
In other news worth noting, two romantic comedies both had successful mini expansions with The Lovers and the charming Israeli Ophir nominee The Wedding Plan both moving up the chart. I guess this is what you call counter programming since Big Hollywood isn't making romantic comedies anymore.
What did you see this weekend?