What did you see over the weekend? I went to Pain & Glory for a second time and as with all Pedro Almodóvar movies, the second viewing is richer than the first. But the big story of the weekend was Bong Joon-ho's Parasite. EVERY SCREENING in NYC was sold out by Friday morning. It must have also been crowded in Los Angeles because it achieved the highest per screen average of the entire year, and the best since La La Land (2016) and we all know what happened to La La Land. Not that Parasite is going to earn $151 million in US release alone and win 6 Oscars but, still, what a feat for its opening weekend.
| Weekend Box Office October 11-13 (ACTUALS) 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = recommended |
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| WIDE RELEASE (800+ screens) |
PLATFORM TITLES |
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| 1 JOKER $55.8 (CUM $193.5) REVIEW |
1 🔺 PARASITE $384k *new* PODCAST, BEST OF TIFF ★ |
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| 2 🔺 THE ADDAMS FAMILY $30.3 *new* |
2 🔺 MY PEOPLE MY COUNTRY $303K (cum. $2.1) |
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| 3 🔺 GEMINI MAN $20.5 *new* REVIEW |
3 🔺 PAIN & GLORY $271k (cum. $557k) REVIEW, PODCAST, TV SPOT ★ |
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| 4 ABOMINABLE $6 (cum. $47.8) |
4 LINDA RONSTADT... $205k (cum. $3.1) REVIEW |
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| 5 DOWNTON ABBEY $4.8 (cum $82.6) COSTUMES, MAGGIE SMITH ★ |
5 🔺 WHERE'S MY ROY COHN? $91k (cum. $351k) |
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| 6 HUSTLERS $3.8 (cum. $98) REVIEW, SOUNDTRACK, COSTUMES ★ | 6 🔺 LUCY IN THE SKY $78k (cum. $160k) REVIEW |
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| 7 JUDY $3.2 (cum. $14.9) PODCAST, QUICK TAKE, BEST ACTRESS |
7 BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON $66k (cum. $7) REVIEW ★ |
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| 8 IT: CHAPTER TWO $3.1 (cum. $207) |
8 🔺 FANTASTIC FUNGI $64k (cum. $144k) |
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| 9 🔺 JEXI $3.1 *new* |
9 🔺 HIGH STRUNG FREE DANCE $54k *new* |
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| 10 AD ASTRA $1.8 (cum. $46.9) REVIEW ★ |
10 THE CLIMBERS $45K (cum. $452k) |
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| 11 RAMBO LAST BLOOD $1.4 (cum. $42.8) |
11 PROMARE $42k (cum. $1.3) |
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| 12 THE LION KING $684K (cum. $542.2) REVIEW |
12🔺 RAISE HELL: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS $34k (cum. $526k) REVIEW |
numbers on this chart are pulled from boxofficemojo.
That's all twelve movies still in wide release and their counterparts in the platforming world (though Brittany Runs a Marathon had a brief fling with being a wide release, but didn't quite crossover).
Joker had a very strong second weekend (the best second weekend of a wide release ever in October) but Lucy in the Sky had a disastrous one, expanding to 198 theaters but with a perfect screen average that was less than $400. The astronaut drama will go down as one of the year's big disasters.