[NOW UPDATED WITH ACTUALS] Box office pundits thought it would be a tight battle for the crown this weekend but it wasn't. Downton Abbey trampled all over its competition with its army of butlers, ladies & ladymaids, footmen, and visiting royals. The chart is after the jump...
| Weekend Box Office Sept 20th-22nd (ACTUALS) 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = recommended |
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| 1 🔺 DOWNTON ABBEY $31 *new* ★ |
1 🔺 LINDA RONSTADT: SOUND... [DOC] $427k on 218 screens (cum. $1.6) REVIEW |
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| 2 🔺 AD ASTRA $19 *new* REVIEW ★ |
2 🔺 OFFICIAL SECRETS $249k on 482 screens (cum. $1.3) REVIEW |
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| 3 🔺 RAMBO: LAST BLOOD $18.8 *new* |
3 CHHICHHORE $204k on 98 screens (cum. $1.7) |
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| 4 IT CHAPTER TWO $17 (cum. $178.9) |
4 THE FAREWELL $118k on 126 screens (cum. $17.3) PERSONAL TAKE, INTERVIEW ★ |
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| 5 🔺 HUSTLERS $16.8 (cum $62.3) REVIEW ★ |
5 🔺 PROMARE $87k on 31 screens *new* |
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| 6 THE LION KING $2.6 (cum. $537.6) REVIEW | 6 🔺 THE ZOYA FACTOR $79k on 100 screens *new* |
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| 7 GOOD BOYS $2.5 (cum. $77.3) REVIEW ★ |
7 TOD@S CAEN $73k on 68 screens (cum. $2.5) |
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| 8 ANGEL HAS FALLEN $2.4 (cum. $64.6) |
8 🔺 MONOS $52k on 5 screens (cum. $121k) OSCAR SUBMISSION COLOMBIA |
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| 9 OVERCOMER $1.5 (cum. $31.5) |
9 🔺 WHERE'S MY ROY COHN? $41k on 4 screens *new* |
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| 10 HOBBS & SHAW $1.4 (cum. $170.6) REVIEW ★ |
10 LUCE $36k on 60 screens (cum. $1.9) REVIEW ★ |
numbers on this chart are pulled from boxofficemojo.
Some notables: Linda Ronstadt The Sound of My Voice has become the fourth music doc to pass $1 million at the box office this year. Downton Abbey is the biggest opening weekend ever for Focus Features. It Chapter Two just inched passed Jordan Peele's Us to become the highest grossing horror film of the year. The weekend's best per screen average almost went to Downton Abbey but instead the victor is the documentary Where's My Roy Cohn with $10,591 per screen.
What did you see this weekend? I took in Downton Abbey and Hustlers... an extremely enjoyable double feature.