by Nathaniel R
so sad we'll never get to see this one on the big screen!
We haven't been checking in with the box office regularly because it's so uneventful. But it's good to glance on occassion. Here's the US box office top ten (links go to reviews). There's a few thoughts after the jump as well.
- The Croods New Age $1.7 (cum. $50.8)
- The Little Things $1.2 (cum. $11.8)
- Judas and the Black Messiah $905k (cum. $3.3)
- Wonder Woman 1984 $805k (cum. $42.6)
- The Marksman $781k (cum. $11.4)...
- Monster Hunter $520k (cum. $13.4)
- Nomadland $503k *new*
- Land $500k (cum. $1.6)
- News of the World $241k (cum. $11.7)
- The War with Grandpa $233k (cum. $20.3)
Croods has become one of the biggest theatrical hits of the pandemic era.
Nomadland premiered to half a million but is that good or bad? It doesn't seem great given that the entirely less buzzy Land with less of a movie star (Robin Wright) opened to $1 million just last week. But then again Nomadland is also on Hulu so presumably that would lessen enthusiasm to see it on the bigscreen (something many more films will be contending with in the future -- particularly Warner Bros films since even the would be blockbusters will be on HBOMax simultaneously.)
Meanwhile Denzel Washington (The Little Things), Liam Neeson (The Marksman), and Tom Hanks (News of the World) continue to be reliably bankablee though their numbers are usually much bigger than $11 million.
Promising Young Woman fell out of the top ten this week but has amassed $5.1 million during its run thus far. How good is that exactly in this climate? It's tough to say but it's not bad. To compare it to past Best Actress titles would it have topped out at something like Room's $14 million or Still Alice's $18 million in a normal year? Or would it have kept growing to get to like a Blue Jasmine $33 or The Favourite $34 kind of place? It obviously wasn't going to become a Silver Linings Playbook $132 type smash but it is easy to imagine different scenarios. How well do you think it would have done in a COVID-free world?
SO WHAT FILMS DID YOU SEE THIS PAST WEEK?