What did you see this weekend? 
Sunday, August 5, 2018 at 3:00PM
NATHANIEL R in Mission Impossible, The Darkest Minds, box office

by Nathaniel R

This weekend looked much the same as last weekend with Mission Impossible - Fallout still dominant and the same limited release hits going strong (Three Identical Strangers and Blindspotting and Eighth Grade... though the latter has now gone wide - yay!). Disney's Christopher Robin opened slightly below expectations but family friendly films sometimes have staying power and audiences reportedly like it... 

Weekend Box Office Estimates
(August 3rd-5th)

W I D E
800+ screens
L I M I T E D
excluding prev. wide
Mission: Impossible - Fallout Three Identical Strangers
1. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT  $35 (cum. $124.4) REVIEW
1. THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS $1 on 405 screens (cum. $8.4) REVIEW
2.🔺 CHRISTOPHER ROBIN $25 *NEW* REVIEW 2. BLINDSPOTTING $660k on 523 screens (cum. $3.1)
3.🔺 THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME $12.3 *NEW*
3. 🔺 ALONG WITH THE GODS 2 $329k on 48 screens *NEW*
4. MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN $9 (cum. $91.3) REVIEW
4.  LEAVE NO TRACE $266k on 169 screens (cum. $5.1) TRAILER DISCUSSION
5. EQUALIZER 2 $8.8 (cum. $79.8)
5. 🔺 MCQUEEN $181k on 34 screens (cum. $491) REVIEW

 

The Young Adult Sci-Fi Dystopia subgenre isn't churning out blockbusters the way it used to. Hollywood rode that fad hard but... diminishing returns and all that. The Darkest Minds opened to a disappointing $5.8 million. Elsewhere in superpowered business the Ant-Man and Incredibles sequels both continue to have long legs.

The Darkest Minds The Miseducation of Cameron Post
6. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3  $8.2 (cum. $136.4) 6. DON'T WORRY HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT $147k on 177 screens (cum. $1.2)
7. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP $6.1 (cum. $195.4)  CAPSULE REVIEW 7. PUZZLE $128k on 5 screens  (cum. $225k)  
8. THE DARKEST MINDS $5.8 *NEW* 
8. 🔺 MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST  $53k on 2 screens *NEW* INTERVIEW
9. INCREDIBLES 2  $5 (cum. $583.1)  CAPSULE REVIEW 9. 🔺SCOTTY & SECRET HISTORY... $43k on 5 screens (cum. $80k) REVIEW
10. TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES  $4.8 (cum. $20.7)  10. 🔺 FAR FROM THE TREE $26k on 13 screens (cum. $72K) 
🔺 = new or expanding its theater count
numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo 

 

In other box office news that's not reflected on these charts...

-Eighth Grade went wide at 1084 theaters just missing the top 10 but upping its total to $6.5 million. Not bad for an indie with no stars. 
-Black Panther earned another $35,000 finally crossing the $700 million mark after 25 weeks in theaters. It's only the third film ever to do so and now that it's reached that goal I expect Disney will pull it from theaters since it's already on DVD.
-Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom inched past $400 million right before the weekend began but it's rapidly losing theaters now (so it will fall fall short of its predecessors overall domestic gross $652)
- Dark Money, Kimberly Reed's new documentary, is inching toward a $100,000 gross in theaters. We're rooting for the trans filmmaker because her debut Prodigal Sons was so extraordinary. 

WHAT DID YOU SEE THIS WEEKEND?

 

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