by Nathaniel R
The long holiday weekend proved to be an old school "movie star" weekend. Tom Cruise managed his best opening weekend ever (not adjusted for inflation) as Top Gun Maverick finally opened after a long long COVID delay. Mysteriously, Sandra Bullock's 10 week old adventure romcom The Lost City was up 29% despite losing theaters as if everyone suddenly remembered that they'd meant to see it all along...
| Memorial Day Weekend Box Office May 27th-30th 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it |
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| WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS) | PLATFORM RELEASES |
 TOP GUN MAVERICK |
 THE ROUNDUP |
| 1 🔺★ TOP GUN MAVERICK $160.5 *NEW* |
1 F3 FUN AND FRUSTRATION $1.1 *NEW* |
| 2 DOCTOR STRANGE IN... $20.3 (cum. $374.7) | 2 2000 MULES $224k (cum. $1.2) |
| 3 🔺★ THE BOB'S BURGERS MOVIE $14.8 *NEW* |
3 THE ROUNDUP $135k (cum. $417k) |
| 4 ★ DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA $7.4 (cum. $29.9) | 4 🔺 MONTANA STORY $129k (cum. $184k) |
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5 THE BAD GUYS $5.6 (cum. $82.3) |
5 THE DUKE $103k (cum. $1.3) |
| 6 ★ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE $3.2 (cum. $57.5) |
6 Y COMO ES EL $32k (cum. $1.4) |
| 7 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 $3.1 (cum. $185.7) |
7 ★ PETITE MAMAN $30k (cum. $764k) |
| 8 ★ THE LOST CITY $2.2 (cum. $102.2) |
8 ★ PLEASURE $21k (cum. $96k) |
| 9 MEN $1.5 (cum. $6.2) | 9 HIT THE ROAD $12k (cum. $122k) |
| 10 FANTASTIC BEASTS 3 $1 (cum. $94.9) | 10 🔺 RITE OF THE SHAMAN $8k *NEW* |
Meanwhile... The Bob's Burgers Movies got off to a solid start but sadly Downton Abbey 2 had the kind of drop that doesn't indicate long legs. It's a pity since it's better than the first movie. And finally, in its 4th weekend Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ousted The Batman (which was cut short by moving to streaming too quickly) as 2022's top grosser.
In limited release Montana Story expanded to nearly 300 screens and the South Korean police drama The Roundup at only 12 screens had a good weekend. The latter stars the always reliable Ma Dong-seok (Eternals, Train to Busan, The Gangster the Cop and the Devil) and at home in Korea it's been huge, becoming the #2 grosser of 2022 behind only the Sorcerer Supreme.
What did you see over the weekend?