Okay, ready. This is a big post today. We're looking at everything in wide release (all 21 films) and their counterparts at the arthouse to see how the Oscar nominations affected the box office.
Weekend Box Office (Actual)
(January 25th-27th)
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1 Glass $18.8 on 3844 screens (cum. $73.4) Review
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1 Uri: Surgical Street $630k on 132 screens (cum. $2.7) |
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9 Escape Room $4.1 on 2192 screens (cum. $47.7)
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9 🔺 Perfect Strangers $68k on 66 screens (cum. $892k)
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11 Dragon Ball Super Brony $3 on 1126 screens (cum. $28.2)
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11 Racetime $50k on 66 screens (cum. $1.7)
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12 Bumblebee $2.9 on 2108 screens (cum. $121.4)
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12 Simmba $46k on 30 screens (cum. $5)
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15 On the Basis of Sex $2 on 1272 screens (cum. $21) Review
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15 🔺 Belle & Sebastian, Friends for Life $37k on 3 screens *NEW*
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17 The Mule $1.6 on 1395 screens (cum. $100.1) Review
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17 🔺 The Invisibles $27k on 4 screens *NEW*
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20 Ralph Breaks the Internet $1.1 on 1029 screens (cum. $195.9) Animated Feature Nominee
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20 The Bounty Killer $20k on 15 screens *NEW*
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In wide release The Favourite and Green Book were up 212% and 153% respectively, getting by far the biggest boosts from the Oscar nomination announcement. One must assume that this is because they're amongthe least seen of the Best Picture nominees so people were suddenly like "oh, yeah, I meant to see that... A Star is Born (112%) also saw a boost in its leggy 17th weekend. Bohemian Rhapsody (7%) didn't get as large a boost despite re-expanding because everyone who meant to see it obviously has. Of the five Best Picture nominees still in wide release, Vice, curiously, got the smallest boost (4%) despite 8 nominations and despite being the third overall lowest gross of the nominees, ahead of only The Favourite and Roma (which did not report grosses because Netflix wants to have their cake and eat it, too.)
In limited release the 3 times nominated wonderful Can You Ever Forgive Me? got the biggest boost up 765% from the previous weekend, returning to hundreds of theaters. It had been on fumes for weeks, no surprise given that this is its 15th weekend in theaters
Of the foreign film nominees Cold War, also a three time nominee (Best Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Foreign Film), got the biggest boost from the golden news, up 109% from the previous weekend, but it was already growing nicely. It will soon its competition Shoplifters (+14%) as one of the top ten highest grossing foreign-language hits of 2018. Lebanon's riveting child on the streets refugee drama Capernaum got a small boost (+46%) but it doesn't seem to be catching on with audiences. At least not yet so we'll hold out hope.
Finally Never Look Away, Germany's double-nominated contender, didn't fare as well. It debuted with a very timid one screen release and earned $25k. But maybe Sony Pictures Classics was too busy with its careful handling of The Wife (+34%). The Glenn Close Best Actress frontrunner drama has quietly amassed a solid $8.7 over 24 weeks (!!!) without ever leaving theaters or going into wide release. Every opportunity they've had to give it another shot they've taken it, reexpanding a few times over the run at various junctures, most noisily after the surprise Golden Globe win.
And in off-Oscar news, Clint Eastwood's The Mule quietly passed the magic $100 million mark. That man is still bankable after all these years.
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