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 |
 A Quiet Place |
 You Were Never Really Here |
| 1.🔺A Quiet Place $50 NEW REVIEW |
1. 🔺 Isle of Dogs $4.6 on 554 screens (cum. $12) CAPSULE | HOMAGE OR APPROPRIATION |
| 2. Ready Player One $25 (cum. $96.9) REVIEW | 2. 🔺 The Death of Stalin $1.1 on 554 screens (cum. $5.5) REVIEW |
| 3. 🔺 Blockers $21.4 NEW |
3. 🔺 The Leisure Seeker $577k on 353 screens (cum. $1.8) |
| 4. Black Panther $8.4 (cum. $665.3) PODCAST |
4. Baaghi 2 $255k on 124 screens (cum. $1.1) |
| 5. I Can Only Imagine $8.3 (cum. $69) |
5. 🔺 You Were Never Really Here $129k on 3 screens NEW REVIEW |
 Chappaquiddick |
 Final Portrait |
| 6. Tyler Perry's Acrimony $8 (cum. $31.3) | 6. 🔺 Finding Your Feet $127k on 57 screens (cum. $229k) |
| 7. Chappaquiddick $6.2 NEW REVIEW | 7. Gemini $73k on 56 screens (cum. $126k) |
| 8. Sherlock Gnomes $5.6 (cum. $33.8) |
8. Final Portrait $59k on 21 screens (cum. $145k) |
| 9. Pacific Rim Uprising $4.9 (cum. $54.9) REVIEW | 9. 🔺 Foxtrot $58k on 45 screens (cum. $414k) |
| 10. The Miracle Season $4.1 NEW | 10. 🔺 Itzhak $51k on 29 screens (cum. $234k) |
| 🔺 = new or expanding its theater count numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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It was a great weekend for Emily Blunt and John Krasinski. The married stars of A Quiet Place each had their best opening weekend ever and they had it together with Krasinski directing them to strong reviews for the new horror flick about creatures who hunt you if you make noise. Blockers and Chappaquiddick also opened well given expectations.
The other new films this week: Lean on Pete, The Endless (reviewed), Where is Kyra? (reviewed), and Blood Feast, most of them on only one screen (uff -the state of indie distribution these days!), all failed to make the limited release top ten with only Lean on Pete posting five figures ($50,000). I'm thrilled that Where is Kyra? is earning such raves for my life long pfavorite Michelle Pfeiffer but more on that when I'm not hacking my lungs out. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you see this week? I saw Ready Player One earlier in the week which didn't do it for me. Which part of it was I suppose to care about? It felt rather like watching other people play video games. When it's not your turn on the controls, it can feel pointless. The only section that truly had me was The Shining because once I realized where we were going I was curious how a kid's movie would pull that off. Then I got sick over the weekend (can't catch a break lately!) so no new movies. I'm catching up on the DVR (Magicians ---S3 = best season) and who knows what I'll be watching tonight through my coughing delirium?