by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office (Jan 12th-14th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
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| 1. Jumanji $27 on 3849 screens (cum. $283.1) |
1.🔺 I Tonya $3.3 on 517 screens (cum. $10) REVIEW |
| 2. 🔺 The Post $18.6 on 2819 screens (cum. $23) REVIEW | OSCAR KICK-OFF | 2.🔺 Phantom Thread $1.1 on 62 screens (cum. $2.2) HARRIET'S CAMEO |
| 3. 🔺 The Commuter $13.4 on 2892 screens |
3. 🔺 Call Me By... $715k on 174 screens (cum. $7.2) REVIEWISH | SCREENPLAY | SEX |
| 4. Insidious: The Last Key $12.1 on 3150 screens (cum. $48.3) |
4. Hostiles $276k on 42 screens (cum. $821k) |
| 5. The Greatest Showman $11.8 on 2938 screens (cum. $94.5) REVIEW | ZAC |
5.🔺 Condorita: La Pelicula $236k on 153 screens |
Support for Steven Spielberg's inspirational newspaper drama The Post within awards season has been a hysterical rollercoaster. Pundits were all "it's winning everything" as the rollercoaster climbed to its peak. On the descent they're screaming "lost everything!" (GLOBES, CRITICS CHOICE) or "wasn't even nominated!" (SAG, BAFTA). But now that the public is on the ride with the press perhaps we begin to climb again towards another adrenaline rush. Whether the descent is thrilling or terrifying this time will depend on your feelings about The Post and how many Oscar nominations it gets. Streep and Hanks and Spielberg all remain bankable so the film will do fine in theaters but will Academy voters bite after the whiplash we saw during the precursors? [More charts and thoughts are after the jump...]
• I Tonya continues to set itself up for a healthy wide-release weekend (whenever that comes) by staying in the media and adding a chunk of theaters every week. Something we wish Call Me By Your Name had done (*sniffle).
• Isn't it curious that The Shape of Water didn't really catch on with audiences? Despite what we think of as mainstream genre appeal it's currently earned only $26 million in wide release (less than the subtitled Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro's first Oscar darling) but it's already losing theaters. Will Oscar nominations give it a substantial second wind?
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| 6. SW VIII: The Last Jedi $11.2 on 3090 screens (cum. $591.5) REVIEW | SECOND TAKE | 6. The Florida Project $51k on 40 screens (cum. $5.4) REVIEW | SECOND TAKE |
| 7.🔺 Paddington 2 $10.6 on 3702 screens REVIEW | 7. 🔺 Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool $33k on 9 screens (cum. $130k) INTERVIEW |
| 8.🔺 Proud Mary $10 on 2125 screens |
8. 🔺 The Insult $24k on 3 screens FOREIGN FINALISTS |
| 9. Pitch Perfect 3 $5.6 on 2505 screens (cum. $94.6) REVIEW | 9. 🔺 Happy End $24k on 11 screens (cum. $118k) REVIEW |
| 10. Darkest Hour $4.5 on 1693 screens (cum. $35.7) CAPSULE | SECOND VISIT | 10. Jane $19k on 18 screens (cum. $1.5) REVIEW |
🔺 = new or significant expansion numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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• Paddington 2 and Proud Mary had decent but non-spectacular openings but both should turn a profit.
• Outside of the top tens Three Billboards and Lady Bird used their Globe wins and Oscar buzz to add back some theaters they'd lost and they've racked up cumulative totals of $28 and $36 million respectively now with presumably more to come if Oscar voters are generous. That's especially impressive in the case of Lady Bird which is A24's biggest success in the US by a comfortable margin now. Their biggest global success remains Moonlight, their first Best Picture winner, which took in $27 million in the US and $37 million abroad. Box Office Mojo currently contains no international data for Lady Bird so perhaps it hasn't started its international journey yet. Will it?
I'd ask you what you saw this weekend but the comments still aren't working. We have a call out to Square Space but their holiday weekend service is lacking. Happy MLK Day tomorrow everyone!
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