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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| 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?