The weekend's biggest new film was Smurfs: The Lost Village... which probably says all you need to know about this mini Spring lull between blockbusters (another Fast & Furious is next).
Audiences weren't of one hive mind with people going to see a little of everything, though The Boss Baby and Beauty and the Beast still dominated as they did last weekend. Beauty and the Beast has been so dominant already that it will surely end the year as the second or third highest grosser. For comparisons sake, if you throw it back into last year's calendar, it would be #3 behind Rogue One and Finding Dory and ahead of Captain America: Civil War...
Among the new releases, isn't it strange the Colossal chose such a limited bow at only 4 theaters. Divisive indies that lean well into mainstream genres despite their idiosyncracies (as this one does being half monster movie) can't normally count on great word of mouth given the lack of adventurousness of mainstream moviegoers. Shoudn't they have tried to make a bunch of money up front with a large limited release or a tiny wide one?
TOP WIDE (800+ theaters)
01 Boss Baby $26.3 (cum. $89.3) Review
02 Beauty & The Beast $25 (cum. $432.3) Review
03 Smurfs: The Lost Village $14 NEW
04 Going in Style $12.5 NEW
05 Ghost in the Shell $7.3 (cum. $31.5)
06 Power Rangers $6.2 (cum. $75.1)
07 Kong: Skull Island $5.8 (cum. $156.5) Review
08 Logan $4 (cum. $218) Review
09 Get Out $4 (cum. $162.8) Review
10 The Case For Christ $3.9 NEW
11 The Zookeeper's Wife $2.8 (cum. $7.6) Review
12 Life $2.4 (cum. $27) Review
TOP LIMITED
(excluding previously wide)
01 Your Name $1.6 NEW 303 screens
02 Gifted $476K NEW 56 screens
03 T2 Trainspotting $275K (cum. $1.6) 157 screens
04 Frantz $151K (cum. $363K) 81 screens Review
05 The Devotion of Suspect X $146K (cum. $569K) 46 screens
06 Personal Shopper $134K (cum. $1.0) 141 screens Review
07 Colossal $125K NEW 4 screens Review
08 Kedi $116K (cum. $2.2) 93 screens Review
09 Their Finest $77K NEW 4 screens
10 The Last Word $60K (cum. $1.6) 120 screens
11 Raw $50K (cum. $400K) 45 screens
12 Truman $25K NEW 3 screens