What did you see this weekend?
| Weekend Box Office Estimates July 19th-21st 🔺 = New or Expanding / ★ = Highly Recommended |
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| W I D E |
PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES |
 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
 The Farewell |
| 1 The Lion King $75 (cum. $350.7) REVIEW |
1 🔺 The Farewell $1.5 (cum. $3.6) PERSONAL & UNIVERSAL, INTERVIEW ★ |
| 2 🔺 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood $40.3 *NEW* REVIEW ★ |
2 Art of Self Defense $311k (cum. $2) REVIEW |
| 3 Spider-Man Far From Home $12.2 (cum. $344.4) TOM HOLLAND, REVIEW |
3 🔺 Maiden $204k (cum. $1.1) REVIEW ★ |
| 4 Toy Story 4 $9.8 (cum. $395.6) PODCAST, REVIEW |
4 Super 30 $189k (cum. $2.1) |
| 5 Crawl $6 (cum. $23.8) REVIEW |
5 🔺 Pavarotti $135k (cum. $4.2) |
numbers on that chart are pulled from boxofficemojo
Unless you wanna talk about The Lion King (why? it's bad!) the big story this weekend was the strong opening of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Making movies for adults is now an endangered business so we're happy that the film had such a healthy opening, the best ever for a Tarantino picture. (Given the movie's defiantly leisurely pacing, though, we have trouble imagining great word of mouth to keep it going for a long time.) Meanwhile The Farewell continued to do great business, so much so that it entered the regular top ten this weekend despite being at only 135 theaters. Go Lulu Wang and Awkwafina! Next weekend continues the annoying trend of Hollywood refusing to compete with itself with the third straight weekend with only one new wide release: Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw. After that the floodgates open with lots of new films per week as the summer movie season begins to wane.