Box Office: My "Secretary" Diana and My Cousin Rachel
Monday, June 12, 2017 at 10:35AM By Nathaniel R
Universal's attempted monster movie franchise launch didn't go so well. The Mummy met scathing reviews and a disappointing opening weekend. Now, a $32 million launch would be major news for many films but not for a $125 million budgeted feature starring Tom Cruise that is intending to launch a whole "universe". Not everything can be Marvel's Cinematic Universe, Hollywood!
In the absence of a strong competitor and on terrific word of mouth (no small thing), Wonder Woman continued her reign at the box office. Given a relatively small second week drop (43% while DC's usual superhero sophomore frame drop is 67%) the Amazon princess is looking to join the $300 million club stateside which will put her right up there with Supes and Batman. DC's "Big Three" indeed.
Charts and further comments after the jump...
| Weekend Box Office (June 9th-11th) *UPDATED WITH ACTUAL GROSSES* |
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| W I D E | L I M I T E D |
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| 1. WONDER WOMAN (1) $58.5 (cum. $206.3) REVIEW | SPECIAL |
1. 🔺 MY COUSIN RACHEL $968k NEW (523 screens) |
| 2. 🔺 THE MUMMY (1) $31.6 NEW |
2. 🔺 PARIS CAN WAIT $436k (cum. $2.2) (176 screens) |
| 3. CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS (1) $12.1 NEW |
3. 3 IDIOTAS $240k (cum. $1.0) (349 screens) |
| 4. PIRATES OF CARIBBEAN (5) $10.7 (cum. $135.8) |
4. CHURCHILL $200k (cum. $798k) (187 screens) |
| 5. GUARDIANS OF GALAXY (2) $6.3 (cum. $366.4) REVIEW |
5. 🔺 BEATRIZ AT DINNER $141k NEW (5 screens) |
| 6. 🔺 IT COMES AT NIGHT $5.9 NEW REVIEW |
6. LOW RIDERS $137k (cum. $6.0) (107 screens) |
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| 7. BAYWATCH (1) $4.6 (cum. $51.1) REVIEW |
7.THE WEDDING PLAN $109k (cum. $1.1 | 105 screens) |
| 8. 🔺 MEGAN LEAVEY $3.8 NEW |
8. NORMAN $102k (cum. $3.6) (160 screens) |
| 9. ALIEN (6) $1.8 (cum. $71.2) REVIEW | FRANCHISE |
9. THE LOVERS $62k REVIEW (cum. $2.1 | 127 screens) |
| 10. EVERYTHING EVERYTHING $1.6 (cum. $31.7) REVIEW |
10. A QUIET PASSION $52k (cum. $1.7 | 76 screens) |
| 11. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (4) $656K (cum. $19.3) |
11. 🔺 THE WOMAN'S BALCONY $49K (cum. $392k | 15 screens) |
| 12. THE BOSS BABY (1) $512K (cum. $171.8) REVIEW |
12. 🔺 THE HERO $45k NEW (4 screens) |
| 🔺 = new or added screens numbers from box office mojo A (#) after a title is either an attempted franchise launch or a sequel |
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In quite a lot of theaters, if not quite wide, Rachel Weisz seduced as My Cousin Rachel. The per screen average wasn't so strong but a $1 million launch for a period drama without bankable stars is nothing to poison your team over!
The debuting Salma Hayek feature Beatriz at Dinner had the weekend's highest per screen average ($150,000 from just 5 theaters). Meanwhile Paris Can Wait passed the two million mark in its fifth week despite middling reviews proving an appetite for both Diane Lane (who really deserves high profile pictures and so seldom gets them) and adult romances. In other news worth noting, Mexico's 3 Idiotas and Israel's The Wedding Plan both passed the difficult $1 million hurdle for subtitled features. Congrats!
What did you see this weekend?
Reader Comments (20)
Didn't get to the movies but finished the first season of I Love Dick. Kathryn Hahn is just the best and she is so genius in this. I know the TV landscape is overwhelming right now but I really, really, hope she snags an Emmy nom.
The whole show is just fantastic, too. So much defiant female sexuality, female gaze, interesting characters, artistic surprises and laugh-out-loud humor.
The Mummy might yet be rescued by its overseas box office, but we'll have to see what happens in the coming weeks.
The Mummy didn't even earn as much as the Brendan Fraser version in its opening weekend. Ouch.
Considering I spent the week watching live theatre at the Stratford Festival, and French Open tennis, Kevin Spacey performing his live show at the Arthur Ashe tennis stadium fits right into my mood. How I'd love to see that.
Time for Tom to hang up his Underoos. At 55, no one is buying the boyish routine. With prints and advertising included, The Mummy cost upwards of $350 million. Giant misstep for Universal
DJDeeJay: The Tom Cruise Mummy didn't earn as much as the THIRD Brendan Fraser Mummy did in its opening weekend. It didn't even earn as much as The Scorpion King spin-off!
I did a double feature of Riley Keough films. First, It Comes At Night which I thought was fantastic and I ended up getting bullied on Twitter for saying it was fantastic.
I also saw Lovesong which was very good. Very short yet bittersweet love story with great acting from Jena Malone and especially Riley Keough who deserves the best performance by a lead actress so far this year.
Saw MEGAN LEAVEY this weekend. Predictable but accomplished what it was designed to do, namely, hit the audience in the feels. Despite being reduced to a teary mess, I appreciated that it was less manipulative than it could have been, and didn't shy away from Megan's pricklier qualities.
Glad WONDER WOMAN is holding strong!
I finally saw the new Alien movie. I was pretty happy with my experience, I wish there was more character development as when each person was dispatched I went 'oh wait which tough chick was that?' or 'hold on a second we're about to get a character arc, no wait nevermind.' i was really looking forward to having a badass gay couple on the covenant as well, but it was only sort of hinted after (SPOILER.......) the first of them was dispatched (END SPOILERINO). MIssed opportunity for me-- they didn't even have to make out or hold each other, but calling one another 'man' while things were happening was almost insulting. One small step at least.
The trailers gave too much away. The cast was great tho and the cinematography was beautiful. Aside from character development, it was a pretty fun movie!
I finally saw I, Daniel Blake. It's Palme d'Or win is embarrassing.
No movies but I finished Homeland Season 6. Kudos to Claire Danes, Rupert Friend, Mandy Patinkin and F. Murray Abraham. All great actors and the show was very thrilling and engrossing.
Attended the FilmOut San Diego LGBT Film Festival this weekend, so I saw a bunch of films like "The Lavender Scare" "The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin" "Something Like Summer" and lots of short films. Favorite films (feature & short) had to be "Handsome Devil" (loved Andrew Scott in this), "A Million Happy Nows" (which reminded me a bit of Julianne Moore's "Still Alice") and "Tonight It's You" (terrific horror short).
Why does Hollywood think audiences want non scary Monster films,I blame the superheroes,count me out but in for a world where Todd Haynes women all meet Carol Aird meeting Carol White that would be wonderful.
Universal was not selling "The Mummy" as a Tom Cruise movie- it was only recently that his sad looking image was plastered on the poster. If you are going to launch a franchise the mummy is not the best choice- Frakenstein or Dracula would be a better choice.
Jaragon, Universal tried with Dracula Untold a few years back. It supposedly was the first movie of their monster universe. And it flopped.
The Mummy is earning big bucks overseas. It's not just about the US anymore.
Watched My Cousin Rachel - wasn't the biggest fan, but as always Rachel Weisz is fantastic in it.
"Dracula Untold" was stupid- they tried to turn Dracula who is pure evil not just into a good guy but at the end into some sort of James Bond vampire-these characters are classic for a reason- these new improvement do nothing interesting with their mythology
But don't they only get 25 cents from a dollar (at most) from overseas? Still a steep climb for The Mummy to break even, and even foreign audiences will reject a bad film. Don't insult their intelligence.
I finally caught up with The Edge of Seventeen, and had to watch it twice. Hailee Steinfeld was captivating and hilarious.