Green Book's Post-Oscar Bump and New Releases

What did you see this weekend? I only took in Greta before getting sick but I keep meaning to get to How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. It was, essentially, the last weekend of the 2018 film year, since most of the major Oscar winners got one last expansion before they depart theaters (almost of all of them are already on DVD). They're milking that golden cow, they are! So, we thought we'd share everything in wide release and the corresponding chart toppers in limited for a really full box office picture this weekend. Ready? Deep breath. Let's go.

Weekend Box Office (Actuals) (March 1st-3rd)
W I D E	PLATFORM / LIMITED
1 How to Train Your Dragon 3 $30 (cum. $97.6) on 4286 screens	1 🔺  Apollo 11 $1.6 on 120 screens *NEW*

2 🔺 A Madea Family Funeral  $27 on 2442 screens *NEW*	2 🔺  Everybody Knows $467k on 209 screens (cum. $1.2)

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Box Office: Alita opens and Cold War is still strong.

What did you see this weekend? Here are the charts...

Weekend Box Office (Esimates) (February 15th-17th )
W I D E	PLATFORM / LIMITED
1 🔺 Alita: Battle Angel $27.8 on 3790 screens *NEW*	1 They Shall Not Grow Old $985k on 626 screens (cum. $15.2) Review ★

2 The LEGO Movie Part 2   $21.2 on 4303 screens (cum. $62.6)	2  Cold War $404k on 247 screens (cum. $3.5) Review, Pod, 5th Biggest Foreign Hit ★

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Diminishing Legos

Did you see The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part this weekend? It's actually the fourth animated LEGO feature, the first becoming an unexpected blockbuster five years ago... But returns have been diminishing so perhaps they've overestimated the demand with their intense supply?

Weekend Box Office Estimates February 8th-10th (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = New or Expanded Theater Count /  ★= Recommended
W I D E 800+ screens	PLATFORM / LIMITED excluding prev. wide
Lego Movie Part 2	Oscar Shorts Program
1 🔺 The LEGO Movie Part 2 $34.4 *NEW*	1🔺  Oscar Nominated Short Films $912k *NEW* Oscar Chart ★

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What did you see this weekend?

Superbowl weekend was rough for the movies with lower than usual grosses all around. Was it the polar vortex? Who dared venture out of their homes?!

Weekend Box Office Estimates February 1st-3rd (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = New or Expanded Theater Count /  ★= Recommended
W I D E 800+ screens	PLATFORM / LIMITED excluding prev. wide
Miss Bala	Free Solo
1 Glass $9.5 (cum. $88.6) Review	1🔺 They Shall Not Grow Old $2.4  (cum. $10.7) Review ★
2 The Upside  $8.8 (cum. $75.5)	2🔺 Free Solo $1.3 (cum. $14.9) Review, Biggest Doc Hits ★
3 🔺 Miss Bala $6.7 *NEW*	3🔺 Ek Ladki Ko Dekha...  $600k *NEW*
4 Aquaman  $4.7 (cum. $323.5) Review, Podcast	4🔺 Cold War  $564k (cum. $2.1) Review, Biggest Foreign Hits ★
5 Into the Spider-Verse  $4.4 (cum. $175.2)  Review, Annie Award Winner ★	5🔺 Destroyer $234k (cum. $1.2)  Review ★

Miss Bala had a rough opening weekend, unable to unseat three week old Glass and four week old The Upside to claim the top spot. Two notes on Oscar boosts: Green Book is now finally on its way to becoming the hit everyone originally assumed it would be when they saw it at festivals, having roared back to life last week and holding super well this week (it's at #6 for the past two weeks -- the highest its ever climbed on the charts after almost three months in theaters indicating that word of mouth has finally caught up with it. In specialty theaters Free Solo and Cold War have also done a superb job capitalizing on their Oscar nods. Free Solo  was all but finished with its run a few weeks ago but is suddenly reenergized, this weekend becoming the second highest doc grosser of 2018 by topping RBG. Meanwhile Cold War has been cruising up the foreign film charts and is now the 8th biggest subtitled hit of 2018, just now defeating last year's Oscar champ A Fantastic Woman.

Box Office Gold Rush - The Post Nomination Boosts

Okay, ready. This is a big post today. We're looking at everything in wide release (all 21 films) and their counterparts at the arthouse to see how the Oscar nominations affected the box office. 

Weekend Box Office (Actual) (January 25th-27th)
W I D E	PLATFORM / LIMITED
1 Glass $18.8 on 3844 screens (cum. $73.4)  Review	1 Uri: Surgical Street $630k on 132 screens (cum. $2.7)

2 The Upside   $11.9 on 3377 screens (cum. $62.8)	2 🔺 Cold War $571k on 111 screens (cum. $1.4) Review, Podcast, 13th Biggest Foreign Hit , Foreign Nominee ★

3 Aquaman $7.2 on 3134 screens (cum. $316.4) Review, Podcast, 6th Biggest Box Office Hit of 2018	3 🔺  Can You Ever Forgive Me? $246k on 235 screens (cum. $8.0) Review, Podcast, Best Actress, Supporting Actor ★

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