by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office Estimates (July 13th-15th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Hotel Transylvania 3 |
 Three Identical Strangers |
| 1.🔺 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 $44.1 *NEW* |
1. 🔺 THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS $1.1 on 170 screens (cum. $2.5) REVIEW |
| 2. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP $28.8 (cum. $132.8) | 2. 🔺 LEAVE NO TRACE $1.1 on 311 screens (cum. $2.1) TRAILER DISCUSSION |
| 3.🔺 SKYSCRAPER $25 *NEW* |
3. WHITNEY $535k on 408 screens (cum. $2.3) |
| 4. INCREDIBLES 2 $16.2 (cum. $535.8) |
4. SANJU $500k on 223 screens (cum. $7.1) |
| 5. JURASSIC WORLD FALLEN KINGDOM $15.5 (cum. $363.2) REVIEW |
5. 🔺 EIGHTH GRADE $252 k on 4 screens *NEW * |
Hotel Transylvania 3 had a strong opening weekend but Skyscraper, the other big new release not so much. I do personally wonder if Dwayne Johnson is a bit oversaturated in the market. This is his third action film to open in theaters within a seven months stretch beginning with Jumanji (a massive hit) on Dec 20th than Rampage on April 13th (which didn't quite hit $100 million domestically) and now Skyscraper on July 13th which opened weaker than Rampage. Maybe three movies of a similar genre from any star in a six month period is a bad idea...
 Sorry to Bother You |
 Dont Worry He Wont Get Far On Foot |
| 6. THE FIRST PURGE $9.1 (cum. $49.5) | 6. 🔺 SOORMA $168k on 50 screens *NEW* |
| 7. 🔺 SORRY TO BOTHER YOU $4.2 (cum. $5.3) REVIEW | 7. HEARTS BEAT LOUD $131k on 131 screens (cum. $2.1) SOUNDTRACKING |
| 8. SICARIO 2 $3.8 (cum. $43.2) REVIEW |
8. YELLOW SUBMARINE (RERELEASE) $84k on 79 screens (cum. $460k) |
| 9. UNCLE DREW $3.2 (cum. $36.6) | 9. 🔺 DON'T WORRY HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT $83k on 4 screens *NEW* |
| 10. OCEANS 8 $2.9 (cum. $132.2) CATE'S PROMO SUITS | HATHAWAY MVP | 10. AMERICAN ANIMALS $78k on 78 screens (cum. $2.7) |
| 🔺 = new or expanding its theater count numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp had a huge drop in its second weekend which keeps this series the runt of Marvel's litter even though they're fun films. In other wide release news Sorry to Bother You had a strong second week adding quite a lot of theaters from its first week in very limited release.
Meanwhile at the arthouses, Three Identical Strangers is shaping up to be the third really big documentary hit of the year (after the docs on RBG and Mr Rogers). Its gross is similar to Whitney's gross but that biodoc dropped a lot in its second weekend suggesting it was very frontloaded in terms of audience interest. But the star platform release this weekend was the very well reviewed Eighth Grade which had sold out houses in NYC and LA and will expand to more cities next weekend and is probably looking at a healthy word-of-mouth driven run.
Next weekend should be interesting since Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again goes head-to-head with Denzel Washington in The Equalizer 2.
The first films in their series opened at $27 and $34 million respectively... so: competitive at first glance. That said Mamma Mia still wins that head-to-head easily despite the smaller opening as it ended its long-legged domestic run which a higher domestic gross AND a behemoth gross overseas. The global totals of their predecessors were Mamma Mia ($609 million) and The Equalizer ($192 million). So who wins this opening weekend: Mamma Mia is a a more famous property but Denzel is super-reliable on opening weekend and audiences probably get (given the trailer) that the second Mamma Mia is kind of Meryl-free, don't they? How well they each open might depend on whether audiences want sunny escape from how awful the world is right now or a place to channel their anger since the commercials make Equalizer 2 look like a purposefully vicarious chance to watch evil people sadistically massacred by a "good guy".
What did you see this weekend?