What did you see this past week/weekend? Will Smith's bankability was yet another victim of Warner Bros decision to release all their movies day and date on HBOMax this year. Without the visual effects spectacle audiences crave, King Richard was one of the superstar's smallest openings despite being a crowdpleaser. Alas, minus the crowds.
| Weekend Box Office November 5th-7th 🔺 = new or expanding | ★ = recommended |
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| 1-5 | 6-10 |
 GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE |
 BELFAST |
| 1 GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE 🔺 $44 |
6 VENOM LET THERE BE CARNAGE 🔺$2.8 (cum. $206.5) |
| 2 ETERNALS $10.8 (cum. $135.8) Nathaniel's Review | 7 NO TIME TO DIE $2.7 (cum. $154.6) Deborah's Review |
| 3 CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG $8.1 (cum. $33.5) | 8 THE FRENCH DISPATCH 🔺$970k (cum. $13.2) Elisa's Review |
| 4 KING RICHARD ★🔺 $5.7 Christopher's Review, Nathaniel's Review | 9 BELFAST ★ $940k (cum. $3.4) Nathaniel's Review |
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5 DUNE ★ $3 (cum. $98.1) Elisa's Review |
10 RON'S GONE WRONG $888k (cum. $22) |
More box office notes after the jump...
French Dispatch continues to be a specialty holding fairly well in its 5th week in theaters despite losing a lot of theaters.
In other news C'mon C'mon (reviewed) was greeted quite warmly in its first weekend in limited release (5 theaters) with the weekend's best per screen average. It earned $134k total.
Spencer (reviewed) crossed $6 million after 3 weeks in theaters. Given its high profile that's not particularly good. Consider that Belfast has already earned more than half of that in just two weeks with far less mainstream awareness. On the other hand it's not quite embarrassing in today's box office climate either, when virtually every movie is making half of what it might have made pre-pandemic.
Finally Power of the Dog (reviewed) also hit theaters but Netflix never reports numbers so we have no idea how it did. It starts streaming on December 1st so we imagine most potential fans are waiting to see it at home, despite the big screen beauty of the western genre (and this movie in particular).
Dune has just left HBOMax so it'll be interesting to see if it gets a small boost for Thanksgiving week when it's no longer available at home. The domestic box office has been decent but underwhelming for this kind of thing. It's currently the 11th highest grossing film of the year in the US, just behind Godzilla vs Kong.
Thanksgiving Weekend is next. The animated musical Encanto, the all star crime drama House of Gucci, the latest Resident Evil sequel, A24's The Humans, and Japan's Oscar submission Drive My Car (reviewed) all open on Wednesday. They're followed on Friday by Paul Thomas Anderson's romantic comedy Licorice Pizza.