Box Office: Beatriz at Dinner with Giant F***ing Robots
Sunday, June 25, 2017 at 3:32PM By Nathaniel R
The opening weekend for Transformers: The Last Knight was such a huge drop from the series past bows that they might want to use the last film's title The Age of Extinction rather than dumping more billions into keeping this franchise alive. Unless of course its overseas take continues to be ginormous.
| Weekend Box Office (June 23rd-25th) |
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| W I D E | L I M I T E D |
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| 1. 🔺 TRANSFORMERS (5) $45.3 (cum. $69) NEW |
1. 🔺 BEATRIZ AT DINNER $1.8 (cum. $3) 491 screens |
| 2. CARS 3 $25.1 (cum. $99.8) | 2. PARIS CAN WAIT $612k (cum. $4.1) |
| 3. WONDER WOMAN $25.1 (cum. $318.3) Review | Top Ten | Special |
3. 🔺 THE BIG SICK $435k NEW 5 theaters |
| 4. 🔺 47 METERS DOWN $7.4 (cum. $24.2) | 4. 🔺 THE BEGUILED $240k NEW 4 theaters Sofia's Filmography | Cannes Bow |
| 5. ALL EYEZ ON ME $5.8 (cum. $38.6) |
5. MY COUSIN RACHEL $200k (cum. $2.4) 163 screens On the 1952 version |
| 6. THE MUMMY $5.8 (cum. $68.5) |
6. 🔺 THE EXCEPTION $138k (cum. $250) 48 screens REVIEW |
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| 7. PIRATES (5) $5.2 (cum. $160) | 7.🔺 MAUDIE $83k (cum. $???) 28 screens REVIEW |
| 8. ROUGH NIGHT $4.7 (cum. $16.6) Reviewish | 8. 🔺 THE BAD BATCH $91k NEW 30 screens REVIEW |
| 9. CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS $4.2 (cum. $65.7) | 9. CHURCHILL $70k (cum. $1.1) 55 screens |
| 10. GUARDIANS VOL. 2 $3 (cum. $380.2) REVIEW | 10. THE WEDDING PLAN $31k (cum. $1.3) 34 screens |
🔺 = new or added screens numbers from box office mojo |
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In other box office news: Wonder Woman continues to show great legs... and before anyone calls us out for sexism, please know that that's common box office vernacular for insignificant percentage drops from week to week meaning the audience is really into you. This often happens with sleeper hits indicating that word of mouth is keeping them buzzing but it's much much rarer with films that open as big as Wonder Woman did. In fact, it's holding so well that it will beat the domestic grosses of DC stablemates Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman any day now which means only The Dark Knight films will have performed better for Warner Bros's DC family.
In limited release Beatriz at Dinner starring Salma Hayek added 400+ screens to its tiny number and is performing quite well. Paris Can Wait, meanwhile has quietly made over $4 million now -- impressive. The Big Sick, the new romantic comedy starring and written by Kumail Nanjiani, had the best weekend, though. Its reviews are spectacular and it now has the highest per screen average for any opener this year, taking in nearly half a million on just 5 screens. In a very crowded weekend for platforming films, the audience also showed some interest in The Beguiled but not much at all in The Bad Batch.
What did you see this weekend?
Reader Comments (22)
Just stuff on TV like War Dogs, a few 30 for 30 shorts, X-Men: Apocalypse, and a re-watch of Dr. Strangelove.
Frantz
Beautiful!
Really adored Beatriz At Dinner when I saw it today, but at home I had a bunch of rewatches of Drive, Big Business, and Apocalypse Now
We saw the new version go My Cousin Rachel. I loved it . Although Rachel Weiss was her usual great performer, the picture totally belonged to Sam Calflin. He did an amazing job in a rather difficult role.
I watched Song to Song twice the last couple of days, and I'm kind of baffled that so many people thought it was worse than or on par with Knight of Cups and To the Wonder. It might not have the scope of The Tree of Life, but I found it hypnotic, thrilling, and emotional, in large part because he hasn't had a cast this fully effective and giving since The New World (yes, TTOL has a useless performance in Sean Penn). It was also for fulfilling and engaging for me because at its base, it's a simple love story and less abstract rumination/philosophizing. Even the twirling and the Malick-y dance of sexuality seemed more in tune with the actual story and characters than the last two films. It felt less like Malick directing the actors to do weird sexual things and more like the way these people would actually behave (and yeah, a lot of this has to do with the actors, their chemistry, and their particular screen personas).
I went and saw Beatriz At Dinner. Film had its flaws but Salma Hayek, IMO, gives the best performance by a lead actress so far this year.
I saw " The Mummy" which is really bad. It took three credited screenwriters to come up this action movie - horror mishmash which works as neither. The three credited editors could not make sense of it . Cruise runs around too- what was he thinking when he agreed to make this movie? His role is a generic action hero which any younger star would have fit right into. If Universal wants to bring back the classic monsters this is not the way to start
I saw Beatriz at Dinner earlier this week, and I have to agree that Salma Hayek really is special in it. John Lithgow is quite good too - he's been having a really strong year. The movie was a fine dark comedy, although I'm not entirely sure the ending worked, however. Roadside Attractions would be smart to push these two performances now so they're not forgotten at the end of the year for Oscar.
Yesterday, I saw Transformers: The Last Knight, in 3D IMAX on a huge screen in London. It's the first Transformers film I've seen, and I'm probably twice the age (at least) of the target demographic...but I can still remember what it was like to BE the target demographic of a film like that and to be blown away by it. So I went along hoping for something like that.
Well, the visual effects are dazzling. The story is very frantic and I couldn't really follow all of it, and I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't more focus on a few robots - there seemed too many for any of them really to pop as characters. But the music was very good, and the film is, in some ways, remarkable - I mean, where do you begin when seting out to make a film like that?
So: I must say, I was pretty impressed.
And then, last night, I got home after a very long walk to find that Casino Royale was on TV about 45 mins. in. Which is the perfect place to join it, as the first 45 mins. are quite slow. So I sat down to watch the rest of it. Very good film! (Can we have a new James Bond film, please??)
I saw Rough Night which was trash. Cars 3 was average. 47 Meters Down was GLORIOUS trash and I had such a fantastic time with it.
And then there was Transformers 5. Literally one of the most painful films I've ever had to sit through. I literally cannot describe any aspects of the plot. I don't remember a thing besides a random submarine, Merlin (?) , Anthony Hopkins saying "dude" and "bitchin." Some of the most atrocious editing I've seen in a while. And I'm shocked that no one is talking about how ridiculous the aspect ratio changes were. I thought I saw 4 or 5 different aspect ratios during the film and it switched basically every other shot. There's a conversation where Laura Haddock is shot in a 1.85ish ratio in a shot reverse shot with Mark Wahlberg who is shot in 2.35. It was one of the most distracting things I've ever seen in a film and I can't believe all the aspect ratio changes got approved for theatrical release. Embarassing. TRASH.
*rant done*
Rewatched To Die For and watched The Devils for the first time.
Churchill?
Sleeper (Woody Allen): Hadn't seen it before. Laughs come in fits and spurts, but some of the physical comedy is GLORIOUS
Symbiopsychoplasm: Take One: Perhaps a little obvious now, but spry and funny regardless.
Cat People: I didn't think it lived up to it's reputation (I preferred the sequel), but it's definitely a solid chiller regardless.
Trances: Concert documentary about a Morrocan folk-rock band. Loved it.
If not for The Big Sick, The Beguiled would've had the highest per screen average of the year and it was also playing on one less screen than TBS. So I'd say audiences had more than "some" interest.
I saw Beatriz and loved it SO MUCH! It holds up well beside Year of the Dog and Enlightened, another Mike White heroine who keeps you off-kilter by insisting on doing the right thing at the wrong time.
Well done Salma,hopefully she can make this film be remembered come December.
My Cousin Rachel. I liked this film. Sam Claflin was the glue that held this movie together; I was surprised by his range. Rachel Weisz was a little dull, and she was certainly no Olivia de Havilland.
GLOW (half of the available episodes) - What a nice change of pace! Funny and ridiculous, but great performances from Allison Brie and Marc Maron, and the rest of the cast.
I had no idea Mike White was the creative force behind Beatriz at Dinner. I am totally going to see that movie this week! I HATED HBO for cancelling Enlightened.
Plus, I'm still in love with Salma Hayek.
I saw "The Beguiled." I was a bit disappointed by it. Where her other largely plotless films were imbued with a lovely melancholy and characters with vibrant inner lives, "The Beguiled" is all aesthetics and no soul. It was slow, plodding, and until the last 15 minutes rather bloodless. It was a wasted opportunity for Sofia Coppola to get messy but alas she does not. It's all too neat.
I saw "Rough Night". GEEZ-US what a mess of an apparent comedy! A ridiculous story and complete waste of some great female talent.
I rewatched The Red Shoes and it continues to hypnotize me and the more I view the film the more it climbs into my top 5 of all time.
I watched Funny Face and The Sapphires because my sis had never seen them. She liked them both.
Last night I watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It was kind of dark, dull and not very much fun actually.