What did you see this weekend?

Weekend Box Office Estimates May 3rd-5th (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = New or Expanded Theater Count
W I D E 800+ screens	PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES 800 screens or less
Long Shot	El Chicano
1 Avengers: Endgame  $145.8 (cum. $619.6)	1🔺 El Chicano  $700k on 605 screens *NEW*
2 🔺 The Intruder $11 *NEW*	2 🔺 Amazing Grace $367k on 263 screens (cum. $2.7)
3 🔺 Long Shot  $10 *NEW* REVIEW	3 🔺 Red Joan $253k on 139 screens (cum. $527k) DAME JUDI
4 🔺 Uglydolls  $8.5 *NEW*	4 The Mustang  $151k on 229 screens (cum. $4.8)
5 Captain Marvel $4.2 (cum. $420.7) REVIEW	5 🔺 The White Crow $98k on 19 screens (cum. $210k)

Though they didn't hit the top five among limited releases both Olivier Assayas's Non-Fiction and Zhang Yimou's Shadow opened with decent per screen averages in very limited release so expect them to expand a bit soon. Meanwhile Claire Denis's High Life just crossed the million dollar mark making it her biggest hit in the US since Chocolate back in 1989. 

Avengers Endgame is already the 2nd biggest film of all time globally (not adjusted for inflation) having beaten Titanic's total gross this weekend by just a single million at this writing. Only Avatar remains to be conquered. 

"Endgame" breaks all the records. Is counterprogramming dead?

What did you see over the weekend? Or perhaps we should ask "Were you part of the record 1.2 billion global haul of Avengers Endgame?" Yes, we're living in the capitalist end times when one corporation (Disney) will soon control the entire world. Or 50% of showbusiness soon. With that in mind let's look at everything in wide release (that's only 13 films and just barely that with Endgame on 4661 screens) and their limited/platform counterparts... 

Weekend Box Office (Actuals) April 26th-28th  🔺 = new or expanded theater counts
W I D E	PLATFORM / LIMITED
1 🔺 Avengers Endgame $357.1 on 4662 screens *NEW*	1 🔺 Amazing Grace $519k on 245 screens (cum. $2.1)

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Easter Weekend Box Office

Happy Easter. It's the quiet before the Avengers: Endgame storm at the nation's theaters.

Weekend Box Office Estimates April 19th-21st (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = New or Expanded Theater Count /  ★= Recommended
W I D E 800+ screens	PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES excluding wide releases losing screens
Curse of La Llorona	Kalank
1 🔺 Curse of La Llorona  $26.5 *NEW* REVIEW	1🔺 Kalank  $1.2 on 320 screens *NEW*
2 Shazam  $17.3 (cum. $121.3)	2 🔺 Amazing Grace $591k on 188 screens (cum. $1.3)
3 🔺 Breakthrough $11.1 *NEW*	3 🔺 High Life $292k on 146 screens (cum. $688k) ★  REVIEW, PODCAST
4 Captain Marvel  $9.1 (cum. $400) REVIEW, BIGGEST HITS 1ST QTR	4 🔺 Teen Spirit  $250k on 696 screens (cum. $305k) REVIEW
5 Little $8.4 (cum. $29.3)	5 🔺 The Chaperone $86k on 55 screens (cum. $222k)

Kalank, a big-budget Bollywood spectacle opened in India and the US on the same day (!) and topped the box office in limited release while the Elle Fanning led Teen Spirit received a disastrous reception in its nearly wide expansion taking in just $360 per screen. Meanwhile at the multiplexes, The Curse of La Llorona which is "sort of" part of The Conjuring franchise (though not officially?) opened at #1 for wide releases and Captain Marvel inched over $400 million domestic in its 7th week of release, somehow returning to the top five despite a continued (if unusually slow) loss of screens. What did you see this weekend? 

"Little" is a hit but "Shazam!" stays on top

What did you see over the weekend? We waited until Monday night to get the full receipts on the arthouse releases (which often report late). Both Shazam! and The Mustang (still expanding) stayed on top in their second and fifth weekend respectively. It was a crowded weekend... well, overcrowded actually, since only the new comedy Little managed to make much of a box office impression of the 17 (gulp) new releases. Sadly Laika, our current favourite animation studio, had trouble. Missing Link proved their weakest opening by far with only $5.8 million (they generally manage about $14 million on opening weekends).

Here's the top ten in both wide and platform titles...

Weekend Box Office (Actuals) April 12th-14th  🔺 = new or expanded theater counts
W I D E	PLATFORM / LIMITED
1 Shazam!  $24.4 on 4306 screens (cum. $94.2)	1 🔺 The Mustang $773k on 527 screens (cum. $3.1)

2 🔺 Little  $15.4 on 2667 screens *NEW*	2 🔺  Amazing Grace $349k on 58 screens (cum. $589k)

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What did you see this weekend?

What did you see this weekend?

Weekend Box Office (Estimates) April 5th-7th  🔺 = new or expanded theater counts
W I D E	PLATFORM / LIMITED
1 🔺 Shazam!  $53.4 on 4217 screens *NEW*	1 🔺  The Mustang $771k (cum. $2) on 350 screens

2 🔺 Pet Sematary  $25 on 3585 screens *NEW*	2  No Manches Frida 2 $415k (cum. $8.7) on 275 screens

3 Dumbo  $18.2 on 4259 screens (cum. $76.2) BEST OF TIM BURTON	3 🔺  The Aftermath $375k (cum. $1.1) on 344 screens   REVIEW

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