Weak Sequels & Promising Platform Titles
Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 7:00PM | Weekend Box Office Estimates June 7th-9th (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = New or Expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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| W I D E |
PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES |
 Secret Life of Pets 2 |
 Last Black Man in San Francisco |
| 1 🔺 Secret Life of Pets 2 $47.1 on 4561 screens *NEW* REVIEW |
1🔺 Biggest Little Farm $347k on 285 screens (cum. $2.4) |
| 2 🔺 Dark Phoenix $33 on 3721 screens *NEW* REVIEW |
2 🔺 Late Night $249k on 4 screens *NEW* REVIEW ★ |
| 3 Aladdin $24.5 on 3805 screens (cum. $232.3) 1992 RETROSPECTIVE |
3 🔺 All is True $237k on 328 screens (cum. $752k) POSTERIZED: DAME JUDI |
| 4 Godzilla: King of Monsters $15.5 on 4108 screens (cum. $78.5) POSTERIZED |
4 🔺 Last Black Man in... $230k on 7 screens *NEW* REVIEW ★ |
| 5 Rocketman $14 on 3610 screens (cum. $50.4) REVIEW ★ |
5 🔺 Echo in Canyon $205k on 43 screens (cum. $501k) |
| 6 Ma $7.8 on 2816 screens (cum. $32.7) REVIEW |
6 🔺 The Souvenir $169k on 145 screens (cum. $696k) REVIEW ★ |
What did you see this week?
• Secret Life of Pets 2 and Dark Phoenix both had dismal openings when compared to their predecessors. Dark Phoenix is likely to become the first X-film not to gross $100 million domestically. But that's okay, since Disney acquired Fox and this franchise can now go dormant until the MCU has their way with it. (We don't really understand why Disney is still going to dump money into The New Mutants reshoot. Just release it on Disney+ and be done with the bad Fox X-Men titles!)
• Late Night had the weekend's best per screen average with $62k per theater and will go nationwide next weekend. The Last Black Man in San Francisco, also had a solid opening and the film will hopefully be able to capitalize on its strong reviews as it expands during the summer as counterprogramming for adult audiences. Late Night is hoping for a bigger box office splash than Booksmart and we assume they'll get it with more recognizable stars headlining.
• Other limited openings this week lower on the charts were the music doc Pavarotti (with $142k), stripper doc This One's for the Ladies ($16k), and the Matt Bomer starring Papi Chulo with $7k from 2 theaters.
• Rocketman crossed $50 million dollar in its 2nd weekend, holding the best of last week's wide releases down only 45% from its opening weekend (by contrast Ma was down 56% and Godzilla a steep drop of 67%)
ENJOY THE TONY AWARDS AND BIG LITTLE LIES TONIGHT. WE'LL HAVE COVERAGE OF BOTH ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY.
