by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office (March 23rd-25th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 I Feel Pretty |
 Lean on Pete |
| 1. A Quiet Place $22 (cum. $132.3) REVIEW, SECOND OPINION, SCREENPLAY |
1. 🔺 Bahrat Ane Nenu $2.8 on 305 screens NEW |
| 2. Rampage $21 (cum. $66.6) | 2. Beirut $1 (cum $3.9) on 755 screens |
| 3.🔺 I Feel Pretty $16.2 NEW |
3. Death of Stalin $340k on 210 screens (cum. $6.8) REVIEW |
| 4.🔺 Super Troopers 2 $14.7 NEW |
4. Lean on Pete $177k on 65 screens (cum. $347k) REVIEW |
| 5. Truth or Dare $7.9 (cum. $33) |
5. 🔺 The Rider $78k on 9 screens (cum. $142k) REVIEW |
A Quiet Place dominated the box office in its third weekend (it's added theaters each weekend despite opening very wide!). It's a genuine smash already earning back more than 10 times its budget in just three weeks time globally. Super Troopers 2 and I Feel Pretty, two new wide release comedies, didn't fare as well though I Feel Pretty could prove to have legs given that word of mouth is much stronger than Schumer's previous film, the misfire Snatched, and the budget is reasonable, too...
 Ready Player One |
 Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami |
| 6. Ready Player One $7.5 (cum. $126.1) REVIEW | 6. Final Portrait $78k on 57 screens (cum. $229k) |
| 7. Blockers $6.9 (cum. $48.2) | 7. 🔺 Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami $41k on 9 screens (cum. $124k) REVIEW |
| 8. Black Panther $4.6 (cum. $681) PODCAST |
8. Itzhak $28k on 33 screens (cum. $332k) |
| 9. Traffik $3.8 NEW | 9. Back to Burgundy $15k on 16 screens (cum. $162k) |
| 10. Isle of Dogs $3.4 (cum. $24.3) CAPSULE | HOMAGE OR APPROPRIATION | IT'S A HIT | 10. 🔺 Godard Mon Amour $12k on 4 screens NEW |
| 🔺 = new or expanding its theater count numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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One important note on the charts though... these are just estimates. Those are especially fallible when it comes to limited release screenings. For example, the Joaquin Phoenix led arthouse release You Were Never Really Here, now in its third weekend, posted over $300,000 last weekend but has apparently not reported a gross this weekend. Lucretia Martel's critically hosanna'ed Zama (which our own Nick Davis just loves but which left yours truly bewildered) also hasn't listed a gross. It opened to $24,000 last weekend.
Next weekend the multiplexes will get a major shakeup since The Avengers Infinity War opens on presumably 4000+ screens ushering in summer movie season (though here in NYC at least Spring still hasn't really decided to arrive) and presumably an opening weekend of $200 million. We're curious if Black Panther will lose screens or if theater owners will assume some fans will want to return to it again on Avengers weekend? One of the reasons Black Panther has been able to perform so consistently is that it's just not losing screens at anything resembling a normal rate, still at nearly 2000 screens in its 10th weekend.
What did you see this weekend? I caught I Feel Pretty which I genuinely enjoyed (hopefully more on that one soon).