What did you see this weekend?
Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 2:00PM | Weekend Box Office (Aug 4th-6th) |
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| 1. 🔺 DARK TOWER $19.5 REVIEW |
1. 🔺 AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL $900k (cum. $1.0) 180 screens REVIEW |
| 2. DUNKIRK $17.6 (cum. $133.5) PODCAST | TOM HARDY | 2. WOLF WARRIOR 2 $460k (cum. $1.0) 32 screens |
| 3. EMOJI MOVIE $12.3 (cum. $49.4) REVIEW |
3. MAUDIE $262k (cum. $5.1) 187 screens REVIEW |
| 4. GIRLS TRIP $11.4 (cum. $85.4) REVIEW |
4. 🔺 LANDLINE $240k (cum. $503k) 141 screens |
It's tough to know what to compare Dark Tower to, to know if it's had a good opening weekend or not but word-of-mouth is going to be a problem if the reviews are any indication. The reviews were kinder, though not as many ticket buyers turned out, for the other new releases...
Given the $17 million opening of the last thriller sold solely on Halle Berry's name (The Call), Kidnap was probably hoping for better than a $10 million bow. But apparently the trailer didn't fully grab people. It was also an unspectacular weekend for the divisive Detroit, which went to 3000 screens but couldn't crack the top five. The weekend's best per screen average went to Taylor Sheridan's new thriller Wind River. It took the Best Director prize from Un Certain Regard at Cannes this summer. Will the murder mystery set on a reservation and starring Jeremy Renner, Elisabeth Olsen, Graham Greene, and Gil Birmingham pick up any audience or awards steam as it expands?
In other news...
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| 6. SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING $8.8 (cum. $294.9) REVIEW | 2ND OPINION | PODCAST |
6. 🔺 WIND RIVER $164k 4 screens |
| 7. ATOMIC BLONDE $8.2 (cum. $34.1) REVIEW | 7. A GHOST STORY $146K (cum. $1.3) 208 screens ORIGINAL SONG |
| 8. 🔺 DETROIT $7.2 (cum. $7.7) |
8. 🔺 STEP $145k 29 screens |
| 9. WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES $6 (cum. $130.2) REVIEWISH | PODCAST |
9. MUBARAKAN $140k (cum. $631k) 128 screens |
| 10. DESPICABLE ME 3 $5.2 (cum. $240.7) | 10.🔺 THE MIDWIFE $82K (cum. $225K) 43 screens |
🔺 = new or added screens numbers from box office mojo |
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An Incovenient Sequel expanded well but it's unlikely to get near the gross of its predecessor which ended its run with an impressive $50 million globally.
Atomic Blonde , while not a flop per se given its reasonable budget, doesn't seem to be finding its audience which is sad because we wanted to go more rounds with this fierce spy woman
Lots of franchises are showing signs of fatigue. The latest Transformers, Apes, and Pirates movies are the least successful from their (recent) franchises. And though everyone seems to really like the new Spider-Man, for instance, it isn't actually doing all that much better than the previous Andrew Garfield swings. It will soon outgross them globally but won't leave them in the dust by the margin you might expect.
Wonder Woman fell out of the top ten in its tenth weekend but what a run. The Amazon princess will break the $400 million domestic mark by Tuesday probably which is saying a lot since only about 2, maximum 3, movies do that annually. In some recent years (2011, 2014) none have.
Reader Comments (26)
Kidnap and Halle Berry is so bad not funny bad just terrible whatever she was doing in Kidnap was not from a former Oscar winner.
I'd really like Berry to have a come-back
Please, pretty please
Girls Trip - terrible. I walked out after 20 minutes
Game of Thrones s4 - I am late on this phenomen, but what a great show. Better acted, directed and produced than most movies
I saw Dunkirk. Thoroughly enjoyed that movie. My friend did not (he does not like war movies).
Lady Macbeth-a bit predictable, but powerfully anchored by Florence Pugh, who is probably going to be a star. You don't do something that intense and precise and not have Hollywood take notice.
I saw A Ghost Story last night. Still thinking about it but liked it.
Finally saw Spider-Man--pretty entertaining. Made plans to see Maudie and the Big Sick but the Texas heat had other plans (naps!). Will do my best to see both.
Finally saw Okja. Was really into it but the penultimate scene (the two parents trying to save their child) was just devastating.
I spent the whole weekend watching the uncut, full-length, near-5 hour version of Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World which is something anyone who loves film must see.
"Atomic Blonde" was fashionable fun, but I was lost in the plot, and that blue tint got annoying, and was that really a popular hair style in the 80's? I don't remember it.
"The Dark Tower", if you haven't read the books, is a SyFy network action flick with decent production values and A list movie stars. If you have read the books, approximately 0.00001% of the 8 novels and several short stories are represented in this generic, bland movie. Not truly awful, not very good. Movie by committee.
Game of Thrones Season 7 has been pretty remarkable so far. 3 rather brilliant episodes.
Twin Peaks
Rick & Morty = as great as always
watched two AIDS documentaries: "How to Survive a Plague?" and "We Were Here", the latter being particularly wonderful because it feels incredibly personal and you feel like you're watching a "Carol" instead of a "Dunkirk".
Baby Driver - I'm not the only person who thinks this is a Bro Fest, right? I absolutely do not understand the 86 Metascore. It's practically baffling to me. Baby is mysterious, cool, and dangerous (like a real bro), while Debora is pretty, one-dimensional, and happy to follow Baby no matter what (like a human doormat). Remember how Cate Blanchett created a real human being as behind-a-mask girlfriend Janine in "Hot Fuzz" in less than 2 minutes? Yeah, "Baby Driver" is not interested in that.
I saw Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" in 70mm- this amazing film is a big screen must. Intense, exciting, spectacular.
My first two days at MIFF (Melbourne International Film festival) were wonderful, with so many movies that will make my best-of-2017 list:
WONDERSTRUCK - may well be Haynes' masterpiece if you ask me. Hit me right in the heart without manipulating it
LOVELESS - Andrey Zvyagintsev is such a great writer. Every bit as good as LEVIATHAN.
INFINITY BABY - my gamble of the weekend (unheralded American indies can be so wide in quality) paid off. Megan Mullaly is especially delicious.
FACES PLACES (or, preferably VILLAGES VISTAGES) - I love spending documentary time with Agnes Varda. She loves her subjects and it comes through (unlike another documentary I had the misfortune of seeing on the weekend, PECKING ORDER, which was more interested in laughing at it's subjects)
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME - it was the usual beauty and poignance of Guadagnino movies. Then it got to one of the final scenes, with Michael Stuhlbarg giving an emotive speech, and I was in tears. I want Stuhlbarg to have been my father when I was young! (Keep him in your predictions, he will almost certainly be around in the Supporting Race over the next few months.)
I saw The Big Sick, which I enjoyed a lot, and rewatched the excellent documentary about James Bond, Everything or Nothing.
I saw Atomic Blonde. I liked it which was surprised me a bit given that I did not like other stylised violent films such as Baby Driver or KingsMen. I have wondered about this and it could be that spy v spy violence does not affect me as much as hitting the general public. I expected Atomic Blonde
to have bigger box-office but American audiences do not seem interested in films set in other
countries or time periods. I am not American and old enough to have been to Berlin when the wall existed.
Caught Borth of a Nation on hbo.
Not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination but a very well made movie telling a good/new story. So worth it.
I just saw The Big Sick. I enjoyed it, especially the middle part, but I wish the stand-up bits were funnier and the Pakistani parents had more depth. Otherwise, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano were a delight.
Also, as is the case with most movies in this genre. I feel it is twenty minutes too long.
I watched the first episode of Man in an Orange Shirt...heart-wrenching to say the least. The scene with Frances de la Tour got me all teary...another personification of how mothers regard their gay sons' lovers/partners.
Detroit was intense and the best film I've seen so far this year. Don't get the criticisms. This policing of art is going to turn me Republican. A nail-biting tapestry of systemic racism.
I saw Columbus and Step this weekend.
Step was a beautiful documentary and I'm glad I watched it. It's the kind of doc that the Academy will love, but it's an important story and well told.
Columbus was fine -- beautifully shot, appreciated what it was trying to do, but it didn't move me and by the evening I more or less forgot about it. Not sure why it's one of the highest reviewed movies on Metacritic right now.
My favorite movies of the summer so far are Detroit and Baby Driver.
In honor of the 55th anniversary of MM's passing, I watched Marilyn in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." A ton of fun and Monroe at her comedic and musical best!
I saw Lady Macbeth. I thought it was spectacular even though it was uncomfortable to watch. But Florence Pugh is a name to watch out for. She is absolutely fantasticm
A Ghost Story - My favorite film of the year so far. Beautiful and affecting, and Casey deserves another Oscar nom for making me feel so much just with posture and movement. I will be thinking about this for days.
Colossal - Just terrible. This could have been a decent movie if it had a proper script, but so many plot points were unexplained. I couldn't even figure out what the setting was supposed to be.
Rocco and His Brothers - Very worthy classic with a great Alain Delon. This was three hours long, but it certainly didn't feel like it.
I saw "Handsome Devil" and "Step." Both are terrific, moving, albeit predictable films. What distinguishes both are that you are made to care about their flawed subjects and delight in their triumphs.
Finally got around to seeing War for the Planet of the Apes and we really liked it a lot. Loved the little girl playing Nova (and was chuffed that they came up with such a great backstory for the original character from the 1968 Planet of the Apes).
tonytr, ITA. This was such an affecting experience. It's by far the best movie of the year so far. I truly hope this financial setback doesn't affect its long-term chances with AMPAS. Bigelow delivers again. Sigh.