Happy Easter. It's the quiet before the Avengers: Endgame storm at the nation's theaters.
| Weekend Box Office Estimates April 19th-21st (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = New or Expanded Theater Count / ★= Recommended |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES excluding wide releases losing screens |
 Curse of La Llorona |
 Kalank |
| 1 🔺 Curse of La Llorona $26.5 *NEW* REVIEW |
1🔺 Kalank $1.2 on 320 screens *NEW* |
| 2 Shazam $17.3 (cum. $121.3) |
2 🔺 Amazing Grace $591k on 188 screens (cum. $1.3) |
| 3 🔺 Breakthrough $11.1 *NEW* |
3 🔺 High Life $292k on 146 screens (cum. $688k) ★ REVIEW, PODCAST |
| 4 Captain Marvel $9.1 (cum. $400) REVIEW, BIGGEST HITS 1ST QTR |
4 🔺 Teen Spirit $250k on 696 screens (cum. $305k) REVIEW |
| 5 Little $8.4 (cum. $29.3) |
5 🔺 The Chaperone $86k on 55 screens (cum. $222k) |
Kalank, a big-budget Bollywood spectacle opened in India and the US on the same day (!) and topped the box office in limited release while the Elle Fanning led Teen Spirit received a disastrous reception in its nearly wide expansion taking in just $360 per screen. Meanwhile at the multiplexes, The Curse of La Llorona which is "sort of" part of The Conjuring franchise (though not officially?) opened at #1 for wide releases and Captain Marvel inched over $400 million domestic in its 7th week of release, somehow returning to the top five despite a continued (if unusually slow) loss of screens. What did you see this weekend?