What did you see this weekend? Pixar's Onward was the big winner with a $40 million haul. The hot ticket in platform release was Kelly Reichardt's First Cow which had the weekend's highest per screen average at just 4 theaters.
| Weekend Box Office March 6th-8th (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = recommended |
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| WIDE RELEASE (800+ screens) |
PLATFORM TITLES |
 Onward |
 First Cow |
| 1 🔺 ONWARD $40 *new* |
1 🔺 PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE $540k on 334 screens (cum. $3.3) TOP TEN LIST ★ |
| 2 THE INVISIBLE MAN $15.1 (cum. $52.6) *new* REVIEW | 2 🔺 BAAGHI 3 $475k *new* |
| 3 🔺 THE WAY BACK $8.5 *new* | 3 MY BOYFRIEND'S MEDS $260k on 280 (cum. $2.8) |
| 4 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG $8(cum. $140.8) | 4 🔺 GREED $213k (cum. $244k) |
| 5 CALL OF THE WILD $7 (cum. $57.4) HARRISON FORD | 5 🔺 FIRST COW $96k on 4 screens *new* REVIEW ★ |
 Emma. |
 Wendy |
| 6 🔺 EMMA. $5 (cum. $6.8) EMMAS OF YORE |
6 🔺 EXTRA ORDINARY $83k on 32 screens *new* |
| 7 BAD BOYS FOR LIFE $3 (cum. $202) | 7 🔺 ORDINARY LOVE $59k on 125 screens (cum. $279k) |
| 8 BIRDS OF PREY $2.1(cum. $82.5) REVIEW | 8 THE LODGE $53k (cum. $1.6) REVIEW |
| 9 IMPRACTICAL JOKERS $1.8 (cum. $9.6) | 9 🔺 WENDY $45k on 69 screens (cum. $74k) REVIEW |
| 10 MY HERO ACADEMIA $1.5 (cum. $12.7) | 10 🔺 BURDEN $40k on 31 screens (cum. $68k) |
I finally made it to Emma. which expanded to very solid numbers in wide release, proving that Jane Austen is still super popular as books-to-movies go. My theater at least was packed on a Saturday night.
Wendy had a rough second weekend dropping to an under $700 per screen average as it expanded to 69 theaters. Between this result and Pan flopping a few years back, perhaps producers should stop funding takes on Peter Pan. There are other stories in the public domain!
In off-chart news The Burnt Orange Heresy, The Booksellers, and Brazil's Bacurau also opened at just a few theaters and Parasite lost half of its screens. It's getting very close to defeating Hero in the all-time foreign film list but it might not make it now with fewer screens each week.