| Weekend Box Office Estimates May 17th-19th (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = New or Expanded Theater Count |
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| W I D E |
PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES |
 John Wick Chapter 3 |
 Trial by Fire |
| 1 🔺 John Wick Chapter 3 $57 on 3850 screens KEANU REEVES *NEW* |
1🔺 Biggest Little Farm $270k on 45 screens (cum. $406k) |
| 2 Avengers: Endgame $29.4 on 4220 screens (cum. $770.8) |
2 🔺 The White Crow $234k on 136 screns (cum. $705k) PODCAST |
| 3 Detective Pikachu $24.8 on 4248 screens (cum. $94) REVIEW |
3 Amazing Grace $200k on 227 screens (cum. $3.7) |
| 4 🔺 A Dog's Journey $8 on 3267 screens *NEW* |
4 Student of the Year 2 $116k on 189 screens (cum. $736k) |
| 5 The Hustle $6 on 3077 screens (cum. $23.1) ANNE HATHAWAY, PODCAST |
5 🔺 Souvenir $85k on 4 screens REVIEW *NEW* |
| 6 The Intruder $4 on 2231 screens (cum. $28) |
6 🔺 Trial by Fire $78k on 109 screens REVIEW *NEW* |
What did you see this week? John Wick Chapter 3 was the big ticket (and the series is growing with each installment). I went to The Hustle due to my Anne Hathaway completism, Poms bcuz old ladies, and, on a whim, Under the Silver Lake (better late than never?). The latter was dumped into theaters a month ago and has only earned $46k... remember when that was getting publicity a year ago? It's weird how movies get delayed and delayed and then not pushed once released. It was never likely to be a hit -- it's very strange and quite long -- but surely it could have done more than $46k with a star (Andrew Garfield) a buzzed about director (or was David Robert Mitchell's breakthrough It Follows too long ago to have that buzz mean anything?), and a genre that's easy in its familiarity (noir) even if the storyline was anything but.
A few other notes...
• A24's drama The Souvenir (reviewed) had the weekend's best per screen average
• The superbly shot documentary The River and the Wall (reviewed) quietly crossed the $100k mark in its third weekend.
• The instant-romance drama The Sun is Also a Star which had the smallest screen count of the new wide releases this weekend (at 2073 screens) finished 8th at the box office with a 2.6 million gross.
• Among wide releases, Tolkien (reviewed) had the worst hold from the previous week, dropping 66% in revenue in its second weekend though Poms and Uglydolls aren't exactly generating great word of mouth either, dropping 60% each.