Sunday
Jan202019
What did you see this weekend?
Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 5:09PM | Weekend Box Office Estimates January 18th-20th (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = New or Expanded Theater Count / ★= Recommended |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
PLATFORM / LIMITED excluding prev. wide |
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| 1. 🔺 Glass $40.5 on 3841 screens *NEW* Review |
1.🔺 Stan & Ollie $391k on 84 screens (cum. $789k) Review ★ |
| 2. The Upside $15.6 on 3320 screens (cum. $43.9) |
2. 🔺 Cold War $355k on 39 screens (cum. $748k) Review, Podcast, Oscar FINALIST ★ |
| 3. 🔺 Dragon Ball Super: Broly $10.6 on 1233 screens (cum. $21) *NEW* |
3. Free Solo $264k on 98 screens (cum. $13.1) Review ★ |
| 4. Aquaman $10.3 on 3475 screens (cum. $304.3) Review, Podcast |
4. Perfect Strangers $185k on 132 screens (cum. $737k) |
| 3. Into the Spider-Verse $7.2 on 2712 screens (cum. $158.2) Review ★ |
5.🔺 Destroyer $150k on 50 screens (cum. $636k) Review, FYC Best Actress ★ |
Other than the big openings for M Night Shyamalan's Glass and the anime film Dragon Ball Super: Broly the story of the weekend was surely Cold War jumping up 264% percent. If it gets an Oscar nomination (or two? three?) on Tuesday its timing for a significant expansion (provided that that's next weekend) will be perfect.
What did you see this weekend? I spent the weekend announcing Film Bitch Awards so that was movie-madness enough for me. Instead I hit Broadway to see Choir Boy from Moonlight writer Tarrel Alvin McCraney. Recommended.
tagged Cold War, Glass, box office
Cold War, Glass, box office
Reader Comments (17)
I did MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. Perfect example of how a good script and actors who do their job well can be undermined by shoddy directing to result in a movie that I suppose is OK, but not that memorable (I am sure I will have forgotten it by the end of the year). Just watch the amateurness of the eventual confrontation between Mary and Elizabeth (cut to Mary, cu t Elizabeth, cut to Mary, cut to Elizabeth, cut to Mary, cut to Elizabeth, repeat, repeat, eventually cue and swell the ominous score to underline the fact that something important just happened) to see what I mean.
I also watched the 90s classic MENACE II SOCIETY for the first time. What an amazing accomplishment (an example of decent directing, as opposed to QUEEN OF SCOTS. So sad that the Hughes Brothers never capitalised on their debut with any good followups).
The Rider - brilliant filmmaking
I'm willing to say that Chloé Zhao deserves that talked about female Best Director nod over Debra Granik and Lynne Ramsay in 2018.
Somehow I had never seen the original Mary Poppins as a child--so my partner and I corrected it this weekend. Very sweet and entertaining.
I can't believe Kidman's meth face drag is a draw. The movie is terrible.
I saw Replicas and wish I hadn't,I cleansed my palette with The Last Detail starring Jack Nicholson.
Saw "Stan & Ollie" yesterday. And what a happy cosmic confluence that director (Jon S. Baird), writer (Jeff Pope) and these two gifted actors (John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan) all came together for the project. Can't imagine a sweeter or more affecting tribute to Laurel & Hardy. It's a joy from stem to stern. Unfortunate that the film appeared too late in the season to get much Oscar traction. Reilly and Coogan both deserve prominent spots in the Best Actor conversation.
I watched the first couple episodes of True Detective and it seems good so far. Mahershala Ali is really a good actor.
I liked a lot of movies this season but the one I keep thinking about is Cold War. It even gets better on a second viewing.
I saw "Roma" on Netflix- visually impressive- love the black and white cinematography and Cuaron does a great job of recreating a specific time and place- but the fiim's script meanders- and times there is a bit too much melodrama- the baby birth crisis goes on for ever. The main character should have been one of the children which considering the main plot makes more sense than the maid. Her story is not that interesting. Cuaron is a master director and probably will get the Oscar
Saw VICE and now I'm done with the 10 front-runners for BP nominations. Eh. Overall it's been a fun year for film but only a handful of the frontrunners seem truly memorable to me. VICE is not one of them: a glib and rather depressing movie, though the leads are all very good.
I watched "A Quiet Place" and was underwhelmed - although I watched it in my scaredy-cat way in the middle of the day with the curtains open.
Tonight & tomorrow, I'll be catching up on 'Paddington 2' and 'Support the Girls'.
Saw If Beale Street could talk.. Liked the movie but did not love it... Too static.
Regina King was very good and IT IS a supporting role.
Saw
BOHEMIAN RAPSODY: How a great performance like Rami Malek gives here lives in a really complicated movie? Boy, the best picture talking for this movie is a nightmare to all Oscar history.
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET: Loved! Everything! Instagram being a art gallery of pictures kill me! 😂 So beautiful and intelligent movie! Deserves the Oscar (didn't see Spider-Man yet)
Two docos about inspiring people - McKELLEN: PLAYING THE PART and RBG.
Plus EIGHTH GRADE, which has just opened in Australia. It was great but I spent too much of the movie feeling awkward for Kayla and cringing at what she was going through. So many bad memories of shyness and feeling socially awkward from my own childhood, it was painful to watch.
Peggy Sue -- absolutely agree on COLD WAR. I thought it was good not great on first view and the second view kinda blew me away.
Saw Game Night -- enjoyable, arch and a tribute to those who like factoids and odd information about movies. The acting was uniformly great, but especially Jesse Plemons, Rachel McAdams, and Billy Magnussen. The sight gags, peppy dialogues and witty-one liners are all delivered with perfect timing.
@PeggySue and Nathaniel R - I really didn't like Cold War the first time (except for the cinematography, which is grand). Maybe if I see it a second time, I will be left with ... mild annoyance? Am I just too dead on the inside? What am I missing? Can you tell me?