by Nathaniel R
The Mission Impossible franchise (in movie form at least) is 22 years old and just won't quit (and neither will Tom Cruise) having its best opening weekend yet with film #6, Fallout. It's also Cruise's second biggest opening weekend ever after only War of the Worlds (2005). My personal favorite of the M:I franchise is Ghost Protocol from 2011. Yours?
| Weekend Box Office Estimates (July 27th-29th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Mission: Impossible - Fallout |
 Blindspotting |
| 1.🔺 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT $61.5 *NEW* REVIEW |
1. 🔺 BLINDSPOTTING $1.3 on 523 screens (cum. $1.7) |
| 2. MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN $15 (cum. $70.4) REVIEW | 2. 🔺 EIGHTH GRADE $1.3 on 158 screens (cum. $2.9) CAPSULE REVIEW |
| 3. THE EQUALIZER 2 $14 (cum. $64.2) |
3. 🔺THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS $1.2 on 433 screens (cum. $6.7) REVIEW |
| 4. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 $12.3 (cum. $119.2) |
4. LEAVE NO TRACE $499k on 289 screens (cum. $4.6) TRAILER DISCUSSION |
| 5. 🔺 TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES $10.5 *NEW* |
5. 🔺 DON'T WORRY HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT $351k on 266 screens (cum. $860k) |
Ant Man and the Wasp gets good news this weekend. Sort of. That extra eight million pushed it over the original Thor and Ant Man films in Marvel's 20 film "universe" so it's now in 16th place instead of 18th. It probably won't climb higher than that since it would need another 23 million to beat Thor: The Dark World. (Dead last in the Cinematic Universe is still The Incredible Hulk (2008) which will likely remain so since they've perfected their formula now.)
On the other hand if you adjust for inflation Ant Man and the Wasp is second to last, still, ahead of only The Incredible Hulk.
 Ant-Man and the Wasp |
 Detective Dee 3 |
| 6. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP $8.4 (cum. $183.1) CAPSULE REVIEW | 6. 🔺DETECTIVE DEE: THE FOUR HEAVENLY KINGS $132k on 31 screens *NEW* |
| 7. INCREDIBLES 2 $7.1 (cum. $572.7) CAPSULE REVIEW | 7. MCQUEEN $84k on 5 screens (cum. $247k) REVIEW |
| 8. JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM $6.7 (cum. $397.5) REVIEW |
8. SANJU $79k on 44 screens (cum. $7.8) |
| 9. SKYSCRAPER $5.4 (cum. $59.1) | 9. 🔺PUZZLE $63k on 5 screens *NEW* |
| 10. THE FIRST PURGE $2.2 (cum. $65.4) | 10. YELLOW SUBMARINE (rerelease) $38k on 40 screens (cum. $776K) |
| 🔺 = 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 that's not reflected on these charts...
The Mr Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? crossed the $20 million mark. It's now the 6th highest grossing documentary of this entire decade. It's the type of documentary gross that's usually reserved for Disney nature spectacles and pop concerts on film.
Finally, Oceans 8 pushed past Ready Player One this weekend to become the 9th biggest hit of 2018 (thus far).