by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office (March 23rd-25th) |
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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.🔺Ready Player One $41.2 (cum. $53.2) NEW REVIEW |
1. 🔺 Isle of Dogs $2.8 on 165 screens (cum. $5.9) CAPSULE | HOMAGE OR APPROPRIATION |
| 2. 🔺Tyler Perry's Acrimony $17.1 NEW | 2. 🔺 The Death of Stalin $1.4 on 484 screens (cum. $3.9) REVIEW |
| 3. Black Panther $ 11.2 (cum. $650.6) PODCAST |
3. 🔺 Baaghi 2 $580k on 123 screens NEW |
| 4. I Can Only Imagine $10.7 (cum. $55.5) NEW |
4. 🔺 The Leisure Seeker $248k on 38 screens (cum. $1) |
| 5. Pacific Rim Uprising $9.2 (cum. $45.6) REVIEW |
5. 🔺 Finding Your Feet $61k on 14 screens NEW |
Spielberg had his biggest opening in years with Ready Player One, though a lot of people (including our own Chris Feil) don't love the film. Black Panther just won't quit, now nearing the domestic totals of Titanic (unadjusted) and Jurassic World and only just starting to lose theaters in its 7th weekend. Meanwhile...
Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs expanded beautifully and will be in full wide release soon. Pacific Rim Uprising took a big drop in its second week, but as with the first film, it's tripled the domestic gross overseas. That's why the sequel got greenlit in the first place.
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| 6. Sherlock Gnomes $7 (cum. $22.8) | 6. 🔺 Flower $48k on 102 screens (cum. $278k) |
| 7. Love, Simon $4.8 (cum. $32.1) REVIEW | 7. Foxtrot $47k on 35 screens (cum. $342) |
| 8. Tomb Raider $4.7 (cum. $50.5) |
8. A Fantastic Woman $46k on 66 screens (cum. $1.8) REVIEW | OSCAR WIN |
| 9. A Wrinkle in Time $4.6 (cum. $83.2) REVIEW | 9. 🔺 Journey's End $46k on 35 screens (cum. $85k) |
| 10. Paul Apostle of Christ $3.5 (cum. $11.5) | 10. 🔺 Gemini $34k on 4 screens NEW |
| 🔺 = new or expanding its theater count numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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What did you see this week? I was mostly doing theater and TV though I did catch Love, Simon a second time since a friend wanted to see it. It's still adorable ... and the frequent online complaints about the more femme gay in that high school just don't wash with me. They're not used as a punchline, as the implication seems to be. Ethan is seen as someone of strength, and gets a standout sympathetic moment and a POV in a crucial moment late in the film.