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) |
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W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
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.
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?