What did you see over the weekend? I was in Bentonville so I was only seeing festival films (which, more on soon)...
Weekend Box Office (Actuals)
May 10th-12th
🔺 = new or expanded theater counts / ★ = highly recommended |
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1 Avengers Endgame $63.2 on 4662 screens (cum. $723.7)
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1 🔺 Student of the Year 2 $462k on 190 screens *new* |
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2 🔺 Pokemon Detective Pikachu $54.3 on 4202 screens *new* REVIEW
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2 Amazing Grace $366k on 260 screens (cum. $3.3) |
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4 The Intruder $7.1 on 2222 screens (cum. $21.5)
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4 El Chicano $228k on 447 screens (cum. $1.2) |
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5 Long Shot $6.2 on 3230 screens (cum. $19.8) REVIEW
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5 🔺 The White Crow $149k on 50 screens (cum. $402k) PODCAST |
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7 Uglydolls $4.1 on 3652 screens (cum. $14.5)
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7 🔺 Biggest Little Farm $110k on 5 screens *new* |
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8 Breakthrough $2.5 on 1902 screens (cum. $37.2)
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8 The Mustang $90k on 118 screens (cum. $5) |
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9 🔺 Tolkien $2.2 on 1495 screens *new* REVIEW
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9 🔺 Hail Satan? $65k on 64 screens (cum. $260k) REVIEW ★ |
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10 The Curse of La Llorona $1.8 on 1185 screens (cum. $51.4) REVIEW
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10 Ask Dr Ruth $47k on 71 screens (cum. $188k) REVIEW
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11 Captain Marvel $1.8 on 1504 screens (cum. $423.8) REVIEW
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11 🔺 Non-Fiction $44k on 5 screens (cum. $87k) |
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12 Shazam! $1 on 936 screens (cum. $137.1)
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12 🔺 All is True $44k on screens *new* JUDI DENCH |
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13 Dumbo $744k on 837 screens (cum. $110.9) BEST OF TIM BURTON, PODCAST
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13 Wild Nights With Emily $42k on 57 screens (cum. $402k) |
numbers on that chart are pulled from boxofficemojo.
It was another historic weekend for Avengers: Endgame, which pushed over the $700 million domestic mark where only 3 previous movies have ever gone (if you dont adjust for inflation) Black Panther, The Force Awakens, and Avatar. Pokemon Detective Pikachu also had a historic weekend, with the biggest gross of any video game adaptation in its first weekend. There are only 13 movies currently in wide release the rest of the mainstream offerings having lost a lot of theaters given that there were four new wide release titles this weekend. Tolkien fared the worst of all of those.
Elsewhere nothing was breaking records though the Biggest Little Farm documentary, which had done well at festivals, had the weekend's highest pre-screen average (on just 5 screens). Shadow, Zhang Yimou's ravishing new visual spectacle, risked a fairly big expansion in its second weekend to 47 screens but so far it's not making moviegoer waves. Go see it!
In limited release Charlie Says (reviewed) had a rough opening with little moviegoer interest, debuting on 38 screens but only earning $19k in total and not even making the top 15 at the arthouses.
What did you see?
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