by Nathaniel R
Despite a roaring rampaging lion's face off with Idris Elba it was a quiet box office weekend. That said both the anime film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, and the horror flick Orphan First Kill performed above expectations...
| Weekend Box Office August 21st-23rd 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it |
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| WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 BEAST |
 ORPHAN: FIRST KILL |
| 1 🔺 DRAGON BALL SUPER $20.1 *NEW* |
1 🔺★ ORPHAN FIRST KILL $1.7 *NEW* |
| 2 🔺 BEAST $11.5 *NEW* |
2 LAAL SINGH CHAADA $528k (cum. $2.9) |
| 3 BULLET TRAIN $8 (cum. $69) |
3 🔺 EMILY THE CRIMINAL $392k (cum. $1.4) |
| 4 ★ TOP GUN MAVERICK $5.9 (cum. $683.4) |
4 🔺★ E.T. (Re-Release) $326k (cum. $1.7) |
| 5 DC LEAGUE OF SUPER PETS $5.6 (cum. $67.3) |
5 MARCEL THE SHELL... $139k (cum. $5.6) |
| 6 THOR: LOVE & THUNDER $4 (cum. $332.1) |
6 🔺 EMERGENCY DECLARATION (South Korea) $70k (cum. $270k) |
 ELVIS |
 THREE MINUTES - A LENGTHENING |
| 7 MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU $3.7 (cum. $350) | 7 ★ A LOVE SONG $62K (cum. $157k) |
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8 ★ NOPE $3.5 ($113.7) |
8 HALLELUJAH LEONARDO COHEN (Doc) $59k (cum. $764k) |
| 9 WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING $3.2 (cum. $77.7) |
9 HANSAN: RISING DRAGON (South Korea) $55k (cum. $708k) |
| 10 🔺 BODIES BODIES BODIES $2.4 (cum. $7.4) EXPANDING FURTHER |
10 ★ FIRE OF LOVE (Doc) $42k (cum. $884k) |
| 11 ★ ELVIS $1.9 (cum. $144.8) |
11 🔺 ★ THE TERRITORY (Doc) $26k *NEW* |
| 12 FALL $1.3 (cum $4.9) |
12 🔺 ★ THREE MINUTES A LENGTHENING (Doc) $8k *NEW* |
| 13 MACK & RITA $365k (cum. $2) |
13 ★ MY OLD SCHOOL (Doc) $7k (cum. $67k) |
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There are now only 13 movies since Jurassic Park, Easter Sunday, and The Black Phone all lost hundreds of theaters to the new films |
14 ★ RRR (India) $6k (cum. $13.8) RRR has also been available to stream for quite a while now but came back to some theaters given its lengthy popularity |
WIDE RELEASE NOTES
• Beast had a mellow opening, which is not good news since it has a tiny exclusive theatrical window to earn back its budget in
• The leggy Elvis just falling out of the top ten in its 9th week has now surpassed The Great Gatsby to become Baz Luhrmann's biggest US hit (Gatsby is still $84 million ahead in terms of global take, though).
• Top Gun Maverick moved up yet another miraculous rung on the all time US box office ladder passing Infinity War. Its next target is Black Panther which is currently the fifth biggest grosser of all time in the US (if you don't adjust for inflation).
• Despite doubling its screen count, Bodies Bodies Bodies was off 22% so it's not going to be a leggy hit.
LIMITED RELEASE NOTES
• Despite a simultaneous debut on Paramount + and a limited theater count of 498, Orphan First Kill managed to gross $1.5 million in its opening weekend, another reminder that there's always a theatrical audience for horror films... at least for the first few days of release.
NEXT WEEKEND
George Miller's fantastical 3000 Years of Longing starring Tilda Swinton as a scholar and Idris Elba as a genie will face off against the horror thriller The Invitation starring Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones, Furious 7) while Sylvester Stallone hits Amazon in a superhero picture called Samaritan that they opted to take straight to streaming. In limited release we're also getting the hostage drama Breaking starring John Boyega (which played festivals as 892), last season's Spanish Oscar finalist The Good Boss starring Javier Bardem, and an erotic thriller Out of the Blue starring Diane Kruger and Hank Azaria.
What did you see this weekend? I've been sick so I stayed in but I did catch up with The Innocents due to its Amanda Awards wins this weekend.