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? 

Review: The Curse of La Llorona

by Tony Ruggio

Latino audiences are the leading demo for moviegoing so Hollywood ignores them at their own peril. Cynical though it is, somebody at Warner Bros said "no mas" and rang James Wan to add one more wrinkle to his ever-expanding Conjuring universe.

Serving as producer, Wan's fingerprints are everywhere. From swooping dollies and immaculate crane work, to an early scene of kids frolicking to 70's tunes, La Llorona often flatters the original with homage. The simple foreboding of a dark corner in the room or a hazy reflection in the mirror, it’s all there and it works for the most part...

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