We're baa-aaack. We haven't done a box office post in two weeks due to our TIFF jaunt so we're dying to know what you've been watching while we were cramming fall and winter movies in. Next weekend things get VERY competitive with the Brad Pitt led sci-fi drama Ad Astra, the leap to the big screen for Downton Abbey, and yet another Sylvester Stallone milking-his-franchises sequel Rambo: Last Blood all arriving to compete with Pennywise and JLo for the box office crown.
The weekend estimates for all 14 pictures in wide release and the corresponding top platform titles are after the jump along with a few notes...
Weekend Box Office
Sept 13th-15th (Estimates)
🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = recommended |
WIDE RELEASE (800+ screens)
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PLATFORM TITLES
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1 IT CHAPTER TWO $40.7 (cum. $153.8)
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1 🔺 BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON $1.5 on 757 screens (cum. $3.8) REVIEW ★ |
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2 🔺 HUSTLERS $33.2 *new* REVIEW ★
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2 🔺 LINDA RONSTADT: SOUND... [DOC] $734k (cum. $889k) on 220 screens |
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3 ANGEL HAS FALLEN $4.4 (cum. $60.3)
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3 🔺 OFFICIAL SECRETS $571k on 330 screens (cum. $957) REVIEW |
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4 GOOD BOYS $4.2 (cum. $73.3) REVIEW ★
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4 CHHICHHORE $419k on 195 screens (cum. $1.3) ★ |
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| 6 HOBBS & SHAW $2.7 (cum. $168.3) REVIEW ★ |
6 TOD@S CAEN $220k on 211 screens (cum. $2.4) |
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7 OVERCOMER $2.7 (cum. $28.9)
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7 LUCE $71k on 115 screens (cum. $1.8) REVIEW ★ |
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8 🔺 THE GOLDFINCH $2.6 *new*
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8 AFTER THE WEDDING $56k on 96 screens (cum. $1.5) REVIEW |
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9 THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON $1.9 (cum. $15) REVIEW ★
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9 🔺 MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL [DOC] $55k on 24 screens (cum. $242k) |
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10 DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD $1.8 (cum. $56.7) REVIEW
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10 MISSION MANGAL $50k on 43 screens (cum. $3.6)
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11 SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK $1.7 (cum. $64.4)
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11 MAIDEN [DOC] $44k on 70 screens (cum. $3.0) REVIEW ★
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12 ONCE UPON A TIME... $1.5 (cum. $136.9) REVIEW, PODCAST ★
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12🔺 MONOS $43k on 5 screens *new* OSCAR SUBMISSION COLOMBIA
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13 ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2 $1.2 (cum. $39.6)
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13 HONEYLAND [DOC] $32k on 46 screens (cum. $532k) REVIEW, OSCAR SUBMISSION MACEDONIA ★
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14 READY OR NOT $941k (cum. $27.6) REVIEW ★
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14 DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME [DOC] $26k on 67 screens (cum. $646k)
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numbers on this chart are pulled from boxofficemojo.
WIDE
It: Chapter Two managed to hold on to the top spot at the box office but by much less of a margin that pundits predicted with Hustlers coming on very strong in its opening weekend. Go JLo! Meanwhile the weekend also bore witness to a disastrous opening for The Goldfinch. The bestseller status of the source material and multiple name actors (Elgort, Kidman, Paulson, Wright, etcetera) weren't able to draw viewers in.
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The most successful of the new platform titles was Colombia's Oscar submission Monos which stars Julianne Nicholson as a woman abducted by a group of guerilla teenagers in a Lord of the Flies style situation on a remote mountain. It's only at 5 theaters right now but maybe it will catch on? The Linda Ronstadt documentary took a big leap in its second weekend adding 200+ screens and will soon join the elite club of $1 million plus grossing documentaries. That will also make it the fourth music doc to gross over a million this year (joining the Aretha Franklin doc Amazing Grace, Pavarotti, and Echo in the Canyon.) It's been a good year for music docs since the David Crosby doc and the Fiddler on the Roof doc are also doing well.
What did you see this weekend?
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