The top of the box office charts this weekend (and a few comments thereafter)
| Weekend Box Office (Actuals) (March 15th-17th) |
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| 1 Captain Marvel $69.3 (cum. $266.2) on 4310 screens REVIEW |
1 🔺 No Manches Frida 2 $3.8 on 472 screens *NEW* |
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| 2 🔺 Wonder Park $16 on 3838 screens *NEW* |
2 🔺 Apollo 11 $1.2 on 588 screens (cum. $5.5) |
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| 3 🔺 Five Feet Apart $13.1on 2803 screens *NEW* |
3 🔺 Dominirriquenos 2 $558k on 53 screens *NEW* |
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| 4 How To Train Your Dragon 3 $9.3 (cum. $135.6) on 3727 screens | 4 🔺 Badla $452k on 115 screens (cum. $1.3) |
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| 5 A Madea Family Funeral $8 (cum. $59) on 2350 screens |
5 🔺 Gloria Bell $394k on 39 screens (cum. $584k) REVIEW |
Outside of the top films Captive State, a sci-fi thriller with John Goodman and Vera Farmiga struggled with a $3.1 million debut, while The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part inched over the $100 million mark in its 6th weekend.
Curiously Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star is Born are still trying to top each other in the 2018 box office battles even though they've both been on DVD for a few weeks now. They've been neck and neck for months with Bohemian Rhapsody finally overtaking A Star is Born just before Oscar-time. Now, A Star is Born is catching back up. Look how close their domestic figures are now in their 24th and 20th weekends!
They're just 600,000 dollars apart (domestically) and they're making at least a little money in movie theaters still despite being on dvd and bluray for a few weeks. Perhaps they're both staying open to try to land in the 10th spot for the final domestic tally of 2018 releases. They're in a practical tie for 10th place right now.
There were also a few arthouse debuts this weekend including The Mustang starring Matthias Schoenaerts which delivered $76k at 4 theaters, The Aftermath starring Keira Knightley which took in $57k from 5 theaters, and Ash is Purest White (interview / review) which rounded up $45k from 7 theaters.
WHAT DID YOU SEE THIS WEEKEND? Next week sees the release of Jordan Peele's Us (reviewed from SXSW) This weekend I was personally wrapping up my time at the SLO Film Festival and taking the red eye back to Manhattan (back now and zombie like with the time differential). This week I shall attempt to get caught up on 2019 movies. You?