| 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.