This past weekend's box office results suggest that a lot of people were trying to catch up on Oscar nominees before the big show. Here are all the titles still in wide release and their counterparts in limited release...
| Weekend Box Office February 7th-9th (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = recommended |
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| WIDE RELEASE (800+ screens) |
PLATFORM TITLES |
 Margot Robbie in "Birds of Prey" |
 Oscar WINNING Short Film "Hair Love" |
| 1 🔺 BIRDS OF PREY $33 *NEW* REVIEW |
1 🔺 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS $870k on 535 screens (cum. $2.7) REVIEW, THE CHARTS ★ |
| 2 BAD BOYS FOR LIFE $12 (cum. $166.3) | 2 THE LAST FULL MEASURE $214k on 617 screens (cum. $2.5) |
| 3 1917 $9.2 (cum. $132.7) THE ACTING, DRY EPIC, CONTINUOUS SHOT, WWI AT THE OSCARS ★ | 3 WEATHERING WITH YOU $136k on 106 screens (cum. $7.5) REVIEW ★ |
| 4 DOLITTLE $6.5 (cum. $63.8) THIS ODD FRANCHISE | 4 🔺 THE ASSISTANT $117k on 25 screens (cum. $220k) REVIEW ★ |
| 5 JUMANJI THE NEXT LEVEL $5.5 (cum. $298.4) | 5 🔺 THE LODGE $76k on 6 screens *NEW* REVIEW |
 "Little Women" crossed $100 million! |
 Elijah Wood says "Come to Daddy" |
| 6 THE GENTLEMEN $4.2 (cum. $26.8) |
6 🔺 COME TO DADDY $61k on 29 screens *NEW* REVIEW |
| 7 GRETEL & HANSEL $3.5 (cum. $11.6) | 7 THE MAN STANDING NEXT $57k on 22 screens (cum. $113k) |
| 8 LITTLE WOMEN $2.3 (cum. $102.7) REVIEW, BEST PICTURE, PODCAST ★ | 8 🔺 PAIN AND GLORY $57k on 118 screens (cum. $4.5) REVIEW, NATHANIEL'S TOP TEN, GOYA AWARDS ★ |
| 9 STAR WARS RISE OF SKYWALKER $2.3 (cum. $510.6) VISUAL FX, REVIEW, OSCAR HISTORY | 9 THE SONG OF NAMES $56k on 78 screens (cum. $924k) |
| 10 KNIVES OUT $2.2 (cum. $158.8) REVIEW, WHODUNNITS, ANA DE ARMAS ★ | 10 COLOR OUT OF SPACE $55k on 54 screens (cum. $677k) |
 "Parasite" now our BEST PICTURE WINNER |
 DO NOT MISS "And Then We Danced" |
| 11 PARASITE $1.5 (cum. $35.5) ARCHITECTURE, OSCAR NITE, NATHANIEL'S TOP TEN, CLASS, BONG ★ |
11 🔺 CREATED EQUAL CLARENCE THOMAS... $52k on 40 screens (cum. $157k) |
| 12 JOJO RABBIT $1.5 (cum. $30.2) PODCAST, IN DEFENSE OF... | 12 🔺 THE TRAITOR $40k on 17 screens (cum. $74k) REVIEW |
| 13 JUST MERCY $1.5 (cum. $33.3) | 13 PANGA $37k on 37 screens (cum. $572k) |
| 14 THE TURNING $1.4 (cum. $14.1) | 14 🔺 INCITEMENT $28k on 9 screens (cum. $56k) |
| 15 FROZEN 2 $1.3 (cum. $474.3) REVIEW , BEST SONG? | 15 🔺 LES MISERABLES $22k on 38 screens (cum. $316k) INTERVIEW, OSCAR NOMINEE, REVIEW ★ |
| 16 THE RHYTHM SECTION $1.0 (cum. $4.9) | 16 CITIZEN K $16k on 15 screens (cum. $94k) |
| 17 SPIES IN DISGUISE $995k (cum. $64.9) | 17 🔺 HONEYLAND $14k on 16 screens (cum. $789k) REVIEW ★ |
| 18 🔺 UNCUT GEMS $652k (cum. $49.2) REVIEW | 18 🔺 AND THEN WE DANCED $13k on 2 screens *NEW* ★ |
Of note...
Knives Out got a greenlight for a sequel and bounced back a bit at the box office (for what's been a very popular run)
Sadly among new arthouse titles two brilliant pictures are being ignored. Russia's Oscar submission Beanpole an emotionally brutally drama about two women trying to build a life together post World War II and Sweden's Oscar submission And Then We Danced, about gay male dancers in homophobic Georgia both got lost in the shuffle somewhat these past two weekends. That's what happens when prestige stuff tries to open right around the Oscars without a nomination and on very few screens. Nevertheless we hope both can stick around for a few more weeks and win some new deserved fans.
This next week/weekend should be interesting. Will Parasite expand again given its Best Picture win? Will 1917 continue to hold as astonishingly well as it's been holding from week to week with audiences despite the Oscar loss? Parasite is currently on around a thousand screens but there are three new wide releases opening Friday (The Photograph, Fantasy Island, and Sonic the Hedgehog) and another 7 new limited releases so there might not be availability for another expansion. That said we expect most of the Oscar losers to close the doors on their theatrical runs in the next two wekends since the ones not named 1917, Little Women, and Parasite were just about out of steam anyway.