by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office Estimates (September 7-9) 🔺 = New or Expanded Theater Count |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
PLATFORM / LIMITED excluding prev. wide |
 The Nun |
 The Wife |
| 1. 🔺THE NUN $53.5*NEW* Nun movies |
1. YA VEREMOS $770K on 369 screens (cum. $3.3) Review |
| 2. CRAZY RICH ASIANS $13.6 (cum. $136.2) Review, Yeoh, Podcast | 2. 🔺THE WIFE $712k on 153 screens (cum. $2) Review, Poster Blurb, Glenn's Oscar |
| 3. 🔺 PEPPERMINT $13.1 *NEW* |
3. 🔺JULIET, NAKED $670k on 467 screens (cum. $2.4) |
| 4. THE MEG $6 (cum. $131.5) Review |
4. THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS $155k on 132 screens (cum. $11.9) Review |
| 5.🔺SEARCHING $4.5 (cum. $14.3) Review |
5. PUZZLE $121k on 131 screens (cum. $1.8) |
What did you see this weekend? I'm in Toronto cramming movies into my eyeballs (just screened: First Man and If Beale Street Could Talk). Reviews soon... thankfully Chris at least is keeping up with the reviews immediately after his screenings. I'm slower - apologies!
In box office news this week: The Nun had the biggest opening weekend of its Conjuring franchise; Fallout became the #1 in the Mission: Impossible franchise globally; BlacKkKlansman is now Spike Lee's third biggest narrative feature (behind Inside Man and Malcolm X... though if you dont adjust for inflation its also behind Jungle Fever and Do the Right Thing); Crazy Rich Asians finally showed a bit of a slowdown after a month in release but hasn't started to lose theaters yet and is already well on its way to being very profitable ( $160+ million globally thus far on a $30 million budget); And The Wife is expanding well with a still healthy per screen average and now crossing $2 million which bodes well for Close's Oscar campaign if it's a slow-and-steady-wins-the-race kind of year. We'll see.