Weekend Box Office: Magic Mike and James Cameron
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 9:30PM By Ben Miller
Super Bowl weekend has never been a hotbed of film dollars, and this weekend was no different. Magic Mike's Last Dance, the third and final entry in Steven Soderbergh's male stripper series, won the weekend with a sub-$10 million opening. That doesn't happen very often in the world of big budgets. In fact, in the 21st century (excluding COVID openings), only Bangkok Dangerous and Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star had a worse opening and still managed to top their weekends. That being said, the film only opened on 1,500 screens, so the per-screen average was pretty solid. Second and third both belonged to director James Cameron. Avatar: The Way of Water continues to work its way up all-time charts, but the re-release of Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winner Titanic added a respectable total for a 25-year-old film.
| Weekend Box Office (actuals) Feb 10th-12th 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended /  = Oscar Nominated |
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| WIDE (Over 800 Screens) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE |
 CONSECRATION |
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1 🔺 MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE $8.3 *NEW* 1,500 screeens |
1 PATHAAN $976k (cum. $15.9) 492 screens |
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2 🔺 CONSECRATION $329k *NEW* 762 screens |
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3 🔺★ TITANIC (25th-Anniversary) $6.7 2,464 screens |
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| 4 80 FOR BRADY $5.8 (cum. $24.7) 3,939 screens |
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6 KNOCK AT THE CABIN $5.4 (cum. $23.3) 3,657 screens |
6 THE WANDERING EARTH II $266k (cum. $4.5) |
 A MAN CALLED OTTO |
 CLOSE |
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7 A MAN CALLED OTTO $2.6 (cum. $57.3) 2,824 screens |
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8 MISSING $2.5 (cum. $26.5) 2,315 screens |
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9 M3GAN $2.4 (cum. $90.9) 2,508 screens |
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10 PLANE $1.2 (cum. $30.7) 1,679 screens |
10 MAYBE I DO $89k (cum. $1.1) |
| 11 THE AMAZING MAURICE $881k (cum. $2.6) 1,527 screens |
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only 11 films in wide release? That is far too few |
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The only other new film in release was the low-budget supernatural religion horror film Consecration. The film made less than $500 per screen. Pretty much everything else was noticably down for the week, with the exception of the International Feature nominee Close. It actually increased in money with a slight theater expansion. Lukas Dhont's film has made over $400k without ever getting on more than 100 screens. It will finally get a proper release next week.
Next week - Everyone clear out and make room for Marvel as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is expected to open to $100+ million. We also get Liam Neeson as Phillip Marlowe in the aptly-titled Marlowe, plus limited releases of the gay romance Of An Age and the Emily Bronte "biopic" Emily (which oddly went to the trouble to Oscar-qualify in 2022)
What did you see this weekend? Lots of romantic comedies for me, including 1941's Ball of Fire, J-Lo's Shotgun Wedding, and a rewatch of You've Got Mail. I also found time for Oscar-nominees Two Days, One Night and Witness. I also searched around and found the elusive Best Original Song nominee Tell it Like a Woman. Believe me, you don't want to find it.
Reader Comments (10)
I'm just glad people are watching something starring Jena Malone aka THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!
This past weekend, I re-watched a couple of docs from 30 for 30 on Disney+ and a first-timer in Zama by Lucrecia Martel. Great fucking film.
I saw SKINAMARINK - wow. The best film of 2023 so far IMO. I will say no more.
Filled out my ballot for Animated Feature by finally watching PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH and TURNING RED (MARCEL for the win on my ballot). Also did MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE (not as good as the original, but at least it wasn't the garbage of XXL) and SPOILER ALERT (beautiful).
I didn;t see much this weekend
Babylon a confused mess with good performances esp Pitt and Robbie,I can see it might be seen as a classic in years to come when the buzz has died down.
The Old Dark House British comedy/thriller from 62
Lady in a Cage Olivia De Havilland thriller with a young James Caan.
Great White 80's Jaws rip off
Curse of the Black Widow Patty Duke TV movie horror.
The best thing I watched this week was Grown-Ups, on Criterion's Mike Leigh retrospective. This film features performances by young Lesley Manville, Brenda Blethyn, and Lindsay Duncan and feels like a forerunner to Leigh's most famous kitchen sink films. If that description intrigues you, you will like it.
I also watched a couple of boring films (Roz Russell in My Sister Eileen and Gillian Armstrong's The Last Days of Chez Nous), a couple of films that were good, but I expected more based on their reputation (L'Atalante and Swing Kids), and one rewatch that grew exponentially for me this time around (Little Children - Todd Field belongs on any list of our greatest directors, I hope we don't have to wait another 16 years for his next film).
Nice to go to a theater again. Too bad I wasted 1 hour 40 minutes and $16 for KNOCK AT THE CABIN. Gawd, that was just...not good.
Perked up with the trailers for COCAINE BEAR (Ray Liotta, Kerri Russell AND Margo Martindale, what the what? how long has that been in the can?) and POLITE SOCIETY, the debut film by Nida Manzoor of We Are Lady Parts, one of my favorite shows of the last couple of years.
Pam -- this is the first i'm hearing of POLITE SOCIETY.
jules - i'm also hoping the success of TAR means Field will get another film made but maybe it's box office trouble means another 16 years (argh)
I actually saw two "big" Oscar nominees this week. I finally saw ELVIS and I liked it okay-ish. Austin Butler was great and whenever the movie concentrated on the music, it was really effective. It was all the other stuff that kind of dragged it down, particularly the Tom Hanks part and the pokey pacing between musical numbers. But I guess it was never boring.
BANSHESS OF INISHERIN was far more of a disappointment for me. I thought the first 45 minutes of it was great. A terrific setup and the idea of just being "over" someone is something I haven't seen explored very often. Then the movie veered into ridiculousness and lost me. The "plot development" got a big fat eyeroll from me. It's the same problem I had with THREE BILLBOARDS. People just don't act that way, and when in doubt, blow things up? The acting was good, though Brendan Gleeson had nothing much to do really.
Between the two Best Actor nominees, well, ELVIS had a much higher degree of difficulty.
I saw...
MAGIC MIKE 3 - Very disappointing! I now understand why it was relegated to streaming initially.
INFINITY POOL - Mia Goth is perfection; perhaps the movie was 20 minutes too long.
TILL - Deadwyler really does deliver in spades here and the direction/cinematography/score are pretty noteworthy too. That screenplay was a bit rough though.
In theatres, I got out to MAGIC MIK3 which was pretty flat for most of it, but had a couple strong setpieces. I also rewatched THE FABELMANS and AVA2AR. (with amc a-list, every few weeks, I'm like "yeah...I could go zone out in pandora for a few hours. why not?")
At home, I've been working through some John Ford blind spots, inspired by that FABELMANS rewatch. YOUNG MR. LINCOLN was lovely, but I was blown away by THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. Also rewatched THE SEARCHERS which I had seen once years ago.
I went to see MAGIC MIK3 in the theater, and while it was mostly dull, movie did have a few exciting sequences. The films The Fabulous Fabellos and Avatar: The Last Airbender were also seen again. (every few weeks, with AMC Premiere, I think, "yeah...I could go zone out in Pandora for a few hours. why not?") geometry dash