Weekend Box Office - what have you been watching?
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 8:23PM by Nathaniel R
The two most exciting platform releases of the moment are the French films Petite Maman (on 224 screens) and Venice Golden Lion winner Happening (opening on just 4). Go see them and support your local arthouses. Everyone was at Doctor Strange 2 which grossed a massive $187.4 in its first frame though CinemaScore grades suggest it will have a bigger drop than usual for Marvel films next week. The Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum rom-com-adventure The Lost City is hanging on pretty well in theaters but it just debuted on Paramount+ which will likely cut its theatrical run short preventing it from reaching the $100 million mark (pity since it was an original comedy and it almost got there). More after the jump...
| Weekend Box Office May 6th-8th 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it |
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| WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS) | PLATFORM RELEASES |
 MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS |
 PETITE MAMAN |
| 1 🔺 DOCTOR STRANGE IN... $187.4 *NEW* |
1 🔺 THE DUKE $371k *new* |
| 2 THE BAD GUYS $9.5 (cum. $57.3) | 2 PETITE MAMAN $206k (cum. $362k) |
| 3 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 $6 (cum. $169.7) |
3 Y COMO ES EL? $74k (cum. $1.2) |
| 4 FANTASTIC BEASTS 3 $4.2 (cum. $86.3) | 4 🔺★ HAPPENING $33k *NEW* |
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5 ★ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE $3.5 (cum. $41.7) |
5 VORTEX $27k (cum. $49k) |
| 6 ★ THE NORTHMAN $2.8 (cum. $28.1) |
6 ★ FIREBIRD $17K (cum. $103k) |
| 7 ★ THE LOST CITY $2.7 (cum. $94.6) |
7 🔺 REMEMBERING HEAVEN $12k *new* |
| 8 UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT $1.5 (cum. $16.4) |
8 HIT THE ROAD $10k (cum. $74k) |
| 9 MEMORY $1.3 (cum. $5.6) | 9 🔺 iN FRONT OF YOUR FACE $9k *new* |
| 10 FATHER STU $875k (cum. $19.3) | 10 LUX AETERNA $8k *new* |
The biggest drop this week was the horror film Hatching which was the third highest grossing limited release last week. In only its second weekend it lost most of its screens and dropped 94%.
What have you been watching? I took in a critics screening of Top Gun Maverick (review soon) and stayed in (trying to cram in all these last minute Emmy hopefuls) but also screened Happy Togeher (1997) in preparation for HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT. Boy is that a tough one. Every image is breathtaking! It's streaming on HBOMax and Criterion Channel so watch it and play along. It's a great Wong Kar Wai movie.
Doctor Strange, Happening, Petite Maman, box office, moviegoing
Reader Comments (9)
Saw France by Bruno Dumont and loved it. I don't usually like his films so I was pleasantly surprised. Léa Seydoux is exceptional. Should have won last Cannes.
I saw The Northman, and was wholly impressed. Sarsgaard is fantastic, and the movie was so epic. Glad to see it in the biggest of screens.
Also caught Something Wild on Criterion, and was listening to the Feelies all weekend. Melanie Griffith will always have a place in my heart.
A movie about two little girls. Childhood is so much fun. But there is no end to the fun. Everyone has to leave drift f1
Finally caught up with The Northman. Not at all unrelated to The Last Duel in how it reminded me of the sort of rock solid fare we would get that looked great, mixed the entertainment with the serious drama and had stars earning their pay checks. Should be Oscar nommed at the very least for its production design.
Finally caught up with The Northman. Not at all unrelated to The Last Duel in how it reminded me of the sort of rock solid fare we would get that looked great, mixed the entertainment with the serious drama and had stars earning their pay checks. Should be Oscar nommed at the very least for its production design.
The Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes series.
Alone in the Dark Martin Landau thriller from 1982
What's the matter with Helen a crazy Debbie Reynolds/Shelley Winters thriller from the 70's
Saw MEDITERRANEO (the new one, not the old one) at the Spanish Film Festival. Solid and inspiring, if not that original.
Also did MORBIUS - not at all as bad as some MCU-philes seem to want to make it out to be. It's enjoyable disposable popcorn.
And, in a final gasp to try and give Bolllywood another go, I saw MAA... and I will;not be going near Bollywood for at least another decade. (I really don't get the culture that embraces and celebrates these over-the-top, badly acted misfires. The only good bits are in the action musicals (like RRR) where the ridiculous hilarious extreme action would make a great 90 minute caper, but they intercut them with awful dramatic and musical interludes).
A short film by Alice Rohrwacher that was on MUBI called Four Roads which I liked a lot and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness which is an excellent film despite the screenplay that has a lot of issues.
I saw “The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent”, which was amusing and sweeter than I thought it would be. Nicholas Cage was fun, Pedro Pascal was charming, and Sharon Horgan makes every movie she’s in better.
I also saw the British version “Ten Percent” of the French series “Call My Agent” which was disappointing.
Of the 4 agents, the two younger ones are miscast imo. The young guy seems unsympathetic, an ineffective agent, and kind of sleazy. The younger female agent has no energy of her own, (isn’t sexy, sorry), and comes across as a whiny head girl at a posh school who got her job through connections, not ability. Not like the divine Camille Cottin in “Call My Agent”.
The assistants and daughter are good. But the writing is just so limp... I had to struggle to finish it.