by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office (May 11th-13th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Life of the Party |
 RBG |
| 1. Avengers: Infinity War $61.8 (cum. $547.8) REVIEW |
1.🔺 RBG $1.1 on 180 screens (cum. $2.0) REVIEW |
| 2.🔺 Life of the Party $18.5 NEW | 2.🔺 Nothing to Lose $646k on 69 screens NEW |
| 3.🔺 Breaking In $ 16.5 NEW REVIEW |
3.🔺 Disobedience $437k on 101 screens (cum. $1.2) REVIEW |
| 4. Overboard $10.1 (cum. $29.5) |
4. 102 Not Out $275k on 102 screens (cum. $966k) |
| 5. A Quiet Place $6.4 (cum. $169.5) REVIEW, 2ND OPINION, SCREENPLAY |
5.🔺 The Rider $225k on 85 screens (cum. $852k) REVIEW |
The leaders of last weekend's box office in wide (Infinity War) and limited release (RBG) repeated this weekend. RBG is turning into a rather big player for indie distributor Magnolia. Magnolia releases lots of pictures but they usually don't crack two million as this new doc has in just two weekends. How big will it get? Only 11 of their releases have ever managed over $3 million theatrical (including TFE favorites Melancholia and I Am Love) but RBG looks likely to join them. Magnolia's all time biggest hit thus far was the Oscar nominated doc I Am Not Your Negro which managed $7 million theatrical last year...
At the multiplexes obviously Infinity War dominated again. It's already the top grossing Marvel movie of all time with $1.6 billion global to date. Only three movies have ever topped $2 billion mark worldwide (Avatar, Titanic, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens). Infinity War will probably make it four. Mother's Day helped both the Melissa McCarthy comedy Life of the Party and the Gabrielle Union thriller Breaking In to open at second and third place.
 I Feel Pretty |
 The Seagull |
| 6. I Feel Pretty $3.7 (cum. $43.8) | 6. The Death of Stalin $121k on 130 screens (cum. $7.6) REVIEW |
| 7. Rampage $3.3 (cum. $89.7) | 7.🔺 Let the Sunshine In $109k on 33 screens (cum. $253k) REVIEW |
| 8. Tully $2.2 (cum. $6.9) REVIEW, SCREENPLAY |
8.🔺 The Seagull $80k on 6 screens NEW REVIEW |
| 9. Black Panther $1.9 (cum. $696.1) PODCAST | 9. Lu Over the Wall $66k on 97 screens NEW |
| 10. Blockers $1.1 (cum. $58.1) | 10. Lean on Pete $64k on 129 screens (cum. $1.0) REVIEW |
| 🔺 = new or expanding its theater count numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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In other box office news, both the Jewish lesbian drama Disobedience and the rodeo drama The Rider have turned into mini-hits during expansion. They must be generating strong word of mouth to go with those rave reviews. Have you seen them yet?
If not, what did you see this week?