John Wick finds box office gold
Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 4:02PM
NATHANIEL R in John Wick, Trial By Fire, Under the Silver Lake, box office
Weekend Box Office Estimates
May 17th-19th (ESTIMATES)
🔺 = New or Expanded Theater Count
W I D E
PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES
John Wick Chapter 3 Trial by Fire
1 🔺 John Wick Chapter 3  $57 on 3850 screens  KEANU REEVES *NEW*
1🔺 Biggest Little Farm $270k on 45 screens (cum. $406k)
2 Avengers: Endgame $29.4 on 4220 screens (cum. $770.8)
2 🔺 The White Crow $234k on 136 screns (cum. $705k) PODCAST
3  Detective Pikachu  $24.8 on 4248 screens (cum. $94) REVIEW
3  Amazing Grace $200k on 227 screens (cum. $3.7)
4 🔺 A Dog's Journey  $8 on 3267 screens *NEW* 
4  Student of the Year 2  $116k on 189 screens (cum. $736k)
The Hustle $6 on 3077 screens (cum. $23.1) ANNE HATHAWAY, PODCAST
5 🔺 Souvenir $85k on 4 screens REVIEW *NEW*
The Intruder $4 on 2231 screens (cum. $28) 
6 🔺 Trial by Fire $78k on 109 screens REVIEW *NEW*

 

What did you see this week? John Wick Chapter 3 was the big ticket (and the series is growing with each installment). I went to The Hustle due to my Anne Hathaway completism, Poms bcuz old ladies, and, on a whim, Under the Silver Lake (better late than never?). The latter was dumped into theaters a month ago and has only earned $46k... remember when that was getting publicity a year ago? It's weird how movies get delayed and delayed and then not pushed once released. It was never likely to be a hit -- it's very strange and quite long -- but surely it could have done more than $46k with a star (Andrew Garfield) a buzzed about director (or was David Robert Mitchell's breakthrough It Follows too long ago to have that buzz mean anything?), and a genre that's easy in its familiarity (noir) even if the storyline was anything but.

A few other notes...

A24's drama The Souvenir (reviewed) had the weekend's best per screen average

• The superbly shot documentary The River and the Wall (reviewed) quietly crossed the $100k mark in its third weekend.

• The instant-romance drama The Sun is Also a Star which had the smallest screen count of the new wide releases this weekend (at 2073 screens) finished 8th at the box office with a 2.6 million gross.

• Among wide releases, Tolkien (reviewed) had the worst hold from the previous week, dropping 66% in revenue in its second weekend though Poms and Uglydolls aren't exactly generating great word of mouth either, dropping 60% each.

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