Get Out, now in its 8th weekend, just refuses to enter the sunken place i.e. the lower echelons of the box office charts. That's a long run already with enormous returns ($183 million worldwide on a $4.5 million budget? It's what all scrappy films dream of!)
But the story of the weekend was the return of the Fast and Furious franchise with film #8 The Fate of the Furious. It grossed an estimated $100 million out of the gate which is significantly lower than its previous Paul Walker farewell entry. But don't cry for it. $100 is still a big big opening weekend and its foreign gross quadruples the American haul so it's already broke a half billion in that first weekend. If the estimates hold it will just barely edge out The Force Awakens as the biggest global opening ever. I'll just be over hear pretending that that $100 million in the US is audience excitement about Charlize Theron wreaking havoc because we love that badass bitch. The charts are after the jump...
TOP WIDE (800+ theaters)
01 Fate of the Furious $100 new Ranking the Franchise
02 Boss Baby $15.5 (cum. $116.3) Review
03 Beauty & the Beast $13.6 (cum. $454.6) Review
04 Smurfs: The Lost Village $6.5 (cum. $24.7)
05 Going in Style $6.3 (cum. $23.3)
06 Gifted $3 (cum. $4.2)
07 Get Out $2.9 (cum. $167.5) Review
08 Power Rangers $2.8 (cum. $80.5)
09 The Case for Christ $2.7 (cum. $8.4)
10 Kong: Skull Island $2.6 (cum. $161.2) Review
11 Ghost in the Shell $2.4 (cum. $37)
12 The Zookeeper's Wife $2 (cum. $10.6) Review
TOP LIMITED
Note: Not all platforming films are reporting grosses -- probably due to the holiday weekend -- so it's worth noting that François Ozon's Frantz would probably chart be on this chart had it reported since it did quite well last week.
The Lost City of Z goes to 500 screens this coming Friday
01 Colossal $462k (cum. $616k) 98 screens Review
02 Their Finest $360k (cum. $470k) 52 screens
03 T2 Trainspotting $230k (cum. $1.9) 331 screens
04 Tommy's Honour $218k NEW 167 screens
05 The Lost City of Z $112k NEW 4 screens (Expanding Friday) Review
06 Spark: A Space Tail $112k NEW 365 screens
07 Norman... $103k NEW 5 screens
08 Personal Shopper $63k (cum. $1.1) 85 screens Review
09 The Devotion of Suspect X $40k (cum. $658k) 21 screens
10 Truman $27k (cum. $53k) 8 screens
11 Raw $21k (cum. $455k) 31 screens
12 Graduation $19k (cum. $37k) 7 screens
What did you see this weekend?