by Nathaniel R
Family movies The Bad Guys and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 continued to do well this past weekend but Liam Neeson's latest revenge thriller (it's called Memory but deja vu would be more accurate since he makes so many of these programmers) struggled to generate any interest. The big box office story (until Doctor Strange next weekend) remains the Daniels hilarious action-comedy-sci-fi-oddity Everything Everywhere All At Once. It was actually up 2% from last weekend; You're not supposed to go up on subsequent weeks, only down! That's the power of true Word of Mouth hits and they're few and far between in the current era since mainstream moviegoing is almost exclusively led by brand awareness rather than a combo of that and word of mouth as in ye olden times of, oh, 10-15 years ago...
| Weekend Box Office April 29th-May 1st 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it |
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| WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS) | PLATFORM RELEASES |
 EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE |
 HATCHING |
| 1 THE BAD GUYS $16.2 (cum. $44.5) |
1 🔺 ACHARYA $832k *new* |
| 2 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 $11.5 (cum. $161.1) | 2 Y COMO ES EL? $300k (cum. $1.1) |
| 3 FANTASTIC BEASTS 3 $8.3 (cum. $79.5) |
3 🔺★ HATCHING $120k *new* |
| 4 ★ THE NORTHMAN $6.3 (cum. $22.8) | 4 🔺 THE DUKE $116K (cum. $156k) |
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5 🔺★ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE $5.5 (cum. $35.4) |
5 🔺★ PETITE MAMAN $59k (cum. $121k) |
| 6 UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT $3.8 (cum. $13.4) |
6 🔺★ FIREBIRD $57K *new* |
| 7 ★ THE LOST CITY $3.8 (cum. $90.7) |
7 🔺 THE SOUND OF VIOLET $22k *new* |
| 8 🔺 MEMORY $3.1 *new* |
8 🔺 ANAIS IN LOVE $18k *new* |
| 9 FATHER STU $2.2 (cum. $17.5) |
9 🔺 HIT THE ROAD $12k (cum. $55k |
| 10 MORBIUS $1.5 (cum. $71.4) | 10 WATERMAN $11k (cum. $296k) |
| 11 ★ AMBULANCE $1.1 (cum. $21) | 11 ★ THE AUTOMAT $10k (cum. $191k) |
The weekend's best screen average went to two documentaries though neither made the chart above as they're each in only one theater: Greenwich Entertainment's Hello Bookstore and Zeitgeist Films Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen which we're eager to see.
What did you see? I opted for live theater and streaming (Under the Banner of Heaven) this weekend and then on Monday a media screening of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse in Madness (review soon).