by Nathaniel R
Barbenheimer is still reigning in theaters and by quite a lot both movies still gathering impressive per screen averages in their fourth weeks and enviable global grosses too ($1.1 billion and $648 million respectively). The weekend's new wide releases, the dracula picture The Last Voyage of The Demeter and a sci-fi comedy Jules didn't make much of an initial impression with moviegoers. Meanwhile the bisexual drama Passages starring Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski (with a sex scene that will make you believe they were actually f***ing on set) expanded to 41 theaters.
| Weekend Box Office Aug 11-13 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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| WIDE (Over 600 Screens) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 BARBIE |
 PASSAGES |
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1 ★ BARBIE $33.8 (cum. $526.4) 4,178 screens |
1 ★ THEATER CAMP (US, comedy) $274k (cum. $3.1) 410 screens |
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2 ★ OPPENHEIMER $18.8 (cum. $264.2) 3761 screens |
2 🔺★ PASSAGES (France/Germany, drama) $85k (cum. $172k) 41 screens |
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3 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES MUTANT MAYHEM $15.2 (cum. $72.3) 3,950 screens
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3 SHORTCOMINGS (US, comedy) $85k (cum. $559k) 210 screens |
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4 MEG 2: THE TRENCH $12.8 (cum. $54.2) 3,604 screens |
4 CATVIDEOFEST 2023 $79k (cum. $230k) 35 screens |
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5 🔺 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER $6.5 *NEW* 2,715 screens |
5 ★ THE MIRACLE CLUB (Ireland/UK, drama) (Japan, anime) 48k (cum. $1.8) 61 screens |
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6 HAUNTED MANSION $5.7 (cum. $53) 2,860 screens |
6 THE FIRST SLAM DUNK (Japan, anime) $39k (cum. $1.1) 26 screens |
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7 TALK TO ME $5.1 (cum. $31.3) 2,379 screens |
7 🔺 DAY BY DAY (Sweden, dramedy) $31k *NEW* 7 screens |
 LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER |
 RANSOMED |
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8 SOUND OF FREEDOM $4.8 (cum. $172.8) 2,803 screens |
8 GO WEST (US, comedy) $28k (cum. $309k) 38 screens |
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9 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -DEAD RECKONING PART ONE $4.6 (cum. $159.4) 2,135 screens |
9 RANSOMED (South Korea, action drama) Oscar submission possibility $16K (cum. $97k) 9 screens |
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10 INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY $92k (cum. $172.6) 790 screens |
10 DREAMIN' WILD (US, music drama) $15K (cum. $240k) 72 screens |
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11 JULES $839k *NEW* 780 screens |
11 APORIA (US, sci-fi) $14K *NEW* 18 screens |
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12 ELEMENTAL $745k (cum. $150.2) 690 screens |
12 WINTER KILLS (1979 / US rerelease) $11k *NEW* 1 screen |
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13 ★ CONTEMPT (1963 / France, rerelease) $9k (cum. $158k) 8 screens |
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14 KOKOMO CITY (US, doc) $9k (cum. $61k) 24 screens |
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only 12 movies in wide release |
15 AFIRE (German, dramedy) $9k (cum. $175k) 17 screens |
What did you see?
I caught The Last Voyage of the Demeter (both because I'm a easy target for vampire pictures and because I like to support David Dastmalchian in bigger and bigger roles!). I also finally made it to Theater Camp which was just hilarious though -- a must for theater nerds -- but if you've been putting it off, go. It's losing theaters rapidly now.
Next weekend.
In wide release we get another DC superhero picture The Blue Beetle as well as the talking dog comedy Strays (which looks surprisingly funny). Other new releases include the stripper-movie spoof Back on the Strip, the trans drama Mutt, the sci-fi indie Landscape with Invisible Hand, the comedy The Adults with Michael Cera and Sophia Lillis, and the French biopic Simone: Woman on the Century starring Elsa Zylberstein as the famous Holocaust survivor turned politician.