Box Office: A Quiet Place, Chappaquidick, and Blockers Open...
Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 8:04PM 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 |
 A Quiet Place |
 You Were Never Really Here |
| 1.🔺A Quiet Place $50 NEW REVIEW |
1. 🔺 Isle of Dogs $4.6 on 554 screens (cum. $12) CAPSULE | HOMAGE OR APPROPRIATION |
| 2. Ready Player One $25 (cum. $96.9) REVIEW | 2. 🔺 The Death of Stalin $1.1 on 554 screens (cum. $5.5) REVIEW |
| 3. 🔺 Blockers $21.4 NEW |
3. 🔺 The Leisure Seeker $577k on 353 screens (cum. $1.8) |
| 4. Black Panther $8.4 (cum. $665.3) PODCAST |
4. Baaghi 2 $255k on 124 screens (cum. $1.1) |
| 5. I Can Only Imagine $8.3 (cum. $69) |
5. 🔺 You Were Never Really Here $129k on 3 screens NEW REVIEW |
 Chappaquiddick |
 Final Portrait |
| 6. Tyler Perry's Acrimony $8 (cum. $31.3) | 6. 🔺 Finding Your Feet $127k on 57 screens (cum. $229k) |
| 7. Chappaquiddick $6.2 NEW REVIEW | 7. Gemini $73k on 56 screens (cum. $126k) |
| 8. Sherlock Gnomes $5.6 (cum. $33.8) |
8. Final Portrait $59k on 21 screens (cum. $145k) |
| 9. Pacific Rim Uprising $4.9 (cum. $54.9) REVIEW | 9. 🔺 Foxtrot $58k on 45 screens (cum. $414k) |
| 10. The Miracle Season $4.1 NEW | 10. 🔺 Itzhak $51k on 29 screens (cum. $234k) |
| 🔺 = new or expanding its theater count numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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It was a great weekend for Emily Blunt and John Krasinski. The married stars of A Quiet Place each had their best opening weekend ever and they had it together with Krasinski directing them to strong reviews for the new horror flick about creatures who hunt you if you make noise. Blockers and Chappaquiddick also opened well given expectations.
The other new films this week: Lean on Pete, The Endless (reviewed), Where is Kyra? (reviewed), and Blood Feast, most of them on only one screen (uff -the state of indie distribution these days!), all failed to make the limited release top ten with only Lean on Pete posting five figures ($50,000). I'm thrilled that Where is Kyra? is earning such raves for my life long pfavorite Michelle Pfeiffer but more on that when I'm not hacking my lungs out. Hopefully tomorrow.
What did you see this week? I saw Ready Player One earlier in the week which didn't do it for me. Which part of it was I suppose to care about? It felt rather like watching other people play video games. When it's not your turn on the controls, it can feel pointless. The only section that truly had me was The Shining because once I realized where we were going I was curious how a kid's movie would pull that off. Then I got sick over the weekend (can't catch a break lately!) so no new movies. I'm catching up on the DVR (Magicians ---S3 = best season) and who knows what I'll be watching tonight through my coughing delirium?
Reader Comments (18)
I saw Isle of Dogs. Not as good as Anderson's last two, but enjoyable.
I saw A Quiet Place which is scary to the point that I get chills when I say the title.
I saw Isle of Dogs. I loved it.
A Quiet Place - loved it. Superb performances across the board, especially Blunt. Will probably include her in my year-end awards.
Isle of Dogs - Fantastically crafted and well written. One or two qualms but the passion/attention to detail on display is mesmerizing.
I too saw REAL PLAYER ONE. The visuals and the action were great at times, but I largely felt like you. To me, it surprisingly felt... soulless... which is not a word I would ever think of using to refer to a Spielberg movie.
Saw A Quiet Place, really enjoyed it.
"Ready Player One". It felt like doing homework, endless homework at a not very good school.
Thank god for Mark Rylance, who has more imagination in one wry smile than half an hour of CGI action.
We also saw "Madame" with Rossy de Palma, Toni Collette, and Harvey Keitel. It was a success as a girl's night out choice. We were both a little ambivalent about the European sensibility of what constitutes a satisfactory ending.
Saw RAMEN HEADS which was a good documentary, and then rewatched EMPIRE RECORDS in honor of the annual “Rex Manning Day” celebrations.
"Ready Player One" on 70mm. Spielberg's most enjoyable film since "The Adventures of Tintin." It's so great seeing him so free, here again liberated in a virtually untrammeled digital realm where he's able to move the camera in such exhilaratingly kinetic ways. It's a real technical feat that seems effortless.
I'm so happy for John & Emily, as this film marks both the best-reviewed film and biggest box office opening of their careers. Careers boosted, marriage saved.
Beatriz at Dinner
Great screenplay!
Theis -- "marriage saved" -- heheh. I'm sure they were fine before (they seem so happy) but yeah, surely they're celebrating big time.
Im tired of Spielberg and his spiels (HA! Kill me itll only make me stronger). The last time O had real interest in any of his movies was Lincoln and before that....War of the Worlds? Throw in the towel man. I think we can all agree he’s a bit of a hack now.
Theis and Nathaniel- Hope this success spurs them to make more films together. They've been a delight on the press circuit, and both are great individually on talk shows. Wish they were my pals.
Saving my movie dollars for IFFBoston, but finally finished Babylon Berlin on Netflix. What a f**king fantastic show! Now this is TV done right.
Saw A Quiet Place - really great despite some qualms, Blunt was fantastic.
Also finally watched Jesus Christ Superstar - so great! Even Legend wasn't too bad.
Nat - I'm not on Twitter so I can't ask you there - what's the GIF from that you just posted from one of your favorite movies? (The one with the woman unbuttoning the man's shirt)
Killing Eve, I am so happy that my girl Sandra Oh is back with a starring role on tv! She's so much fun to watch, she should be a major star.
Love, Simon, which is a cute addition to the gay coming-of-age film pantheon.
I also did quite a bit of binge-watching: Chewing Gum (hilarious), Everything Sucks! (eh -- not surprised it was canned), and Looking (seriously watchable despite characters whom I sometimes want to punch in the face).