What did you see this weekend? I only took in Greta before getting sick but I keep meaning to get to How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. It was, essentially, the last weekend of the 2018 film year, since most of the major Oscar winners got one last expansion before they depart theaters (almost of all of them are already on DVD). They're milking that golden cow, they are! So, we thought we'd share everything in wide release and the corresponding chart toppers in limited for a really full box office picture this weekend. Ready? Deep breath. Let's go.
Weekend Box Office (Actuals)
(March 1st-3rd)
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1 How to Train Your Dragon 3 $30 (cum. $97.6) on 4286 screens
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1 🔺 Apollo 11 $1.6 on 120 screens *NEW* |
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2 🔺 A Madea Family Funeral $27 on 2442 screens *NEW*
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2 🔺 Everybody Knows $467k on 209 screens (cum. $1.2) |
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3 Alita: Battle Angel $7.2 (cum. $72.4) on 3096 screens
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3 Total Dhamaal $439k on 209 screens (cum. $1.7) |
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5 🔺 Fighting With My Family $4.6 (cum. $14.9) on 2855 screens Review
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5 🔺 Arctic $365k on 268 screens (cum. $1.6)
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7 Isn't It Romantic $4.5 (cum. $40.1) on 3325 screens
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7 🔺 Furie $156k on 14 screens *NEW*
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9 What Men Want $2.7 (cum. $49.7) on 2018 screens
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9 🔺 Never Look Away $130k (cum. $666k) Review
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10 Happy Death Day 2 U $2.4 (cum. $25.2) on 2331 screens
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10 🔺 Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion $122k on 69 screens (cum. $548k)
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13 🔺 A Star is Born $1.8 (cum. $212.8) on 1235 screens Review, Soundtracking,
Podcast, ★
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13 Extreme Job $93k on 17 screens (cum. $1.3)
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14 Cold Pursuit $1.6 (cum. $29.9) on 1765 screens
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14 Capernaum $73k on 58 screens (cum. $1.3) Interview, Podcast ★
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15 🔺 Run the Race $1.3 (cum. $4.1) on 1075 screens
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15 🔺 The Iron Orchard $61k on 42 screens (cum. $116k)
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17 Glass $892k (cum. $109.4) on 756 screens Review
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17 🔺 Birds of Passage $57k on 31 screens (cum. $158k) Review
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18 🔺 The Favourite $813k (cum. $33.2) on 742 screens Review, Podcast, That Ending ★
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18 Saint Judy $39k on 55 screens *NEW*
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In box office news...
Apollo 11 opened to great numbers for a doc. Too bad it couldn't retroactively help First Man!
Tyler Perry's 9th official entry in the Madea series opened right in the middle of where those pictures open. It's been a pretty consistent performer for Perry for 14 years now.
Alita Battle Angel has been an underperformer in the US but it looks like the global audience will save it. The expensive picture ($170 million budget + who knows how much on P&A) has so far grossed $350 million overseas. So it will probably break even in theaters eventually. But budgets that big always look too big unless a film explodes in theaters.
Transit
Outside the charts above we want to draw your attention again to Germany's Transit and Iceland's Woman at War which opened in 2 and 5 theaters respectively. Next weekend will tell if they caught at on at all but they're both really fine foreign films so take a chance on them, okay?
BEST PICTURE AFTERMATH...
For what it's worth Green Book got a big post-Oscar expansion and after a slow start (in which we repeatedly warned people not to call it a flop -- it was never going to have a huge opening weekend) it's now turned into a hit with $75 stateside and a surprising $112 million overseas. In fact, this weekend was its third best weekend ever in its 16th week in theaters.
Of the seven Best Picture nominees that got a theatrical release here's a curious note: Green Book, The Favourite, and Bohemian Rhapsody, were all bigger hits abroad then they were in the US! Vice was the only film that was far more popular at home (though it was only modestly popular here). As for the others A Star is Born, BlacKkKlansman, and Black Panther did roughly the same amount of business on both sides of the ocean.
You can see more details on the Best Picture chart where they're ranked in multiple ways.
Article originally appeared on The Film Experience (http://thefilmexperience.net/).
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