Given the craziness of holiday weekends at the box office, we opted to wait until "actuals" were released rather than run with an "estimates" column yesterday. So herewith a complete picture of the Fourth of July weekend with all 12 pictures still in wide release and the corresponding top of the charts in platform or limited titles. What did you see this first week of July?
Weekend Box Office
July 5th-7th (Actuals)
🔺 = new or expanded theater counts / ★ = recommended |
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1 🔺 Spider-Man Far From Home $92.5 (cum. $185) *NEW* TOM HOLLAND
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1 Pavarotti [DOC] $458k on 250 screens (cum. $2.9) |
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2 Toy Story 4 $33.8 on 4540 screens (cum. $306.1) PODCAST
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2 🔺 Last Black Man... $431k on 188 screens (cum. $2.7) ★ REVIEW, PODCAST, BEST OF |
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3 Yesterday $10 on 2614 screens (cum. $36.1)
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3 🔺 Echo in the Canyon [DOC] $297k on 144 screens (cum. 1.9) |
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4 Annabelle Comes Home $9.4 on 3613 screens (cum. $49.8)
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4 🔺 Wild Rose $209k on 63 screens (cum. $377k) PODCAST |
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6 🔺 MidSommar $6.3 on 2707 screens (cum. $10.9) *NEW* ★ REVIEW, PODCAST
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6 The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith $177k on 179 screens (cum. $966k) |
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7 Secret Life of Pets 2 $4.6 on 2846 screens (cum. $140.6) REVIEW
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7 Biggest Little Farm [DOC] $132k on 107 screens (cum. $3.7) |
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8 Men in Black Int'l $3.7 on 2716 screens (cum. $72.1) REVIEW
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8 🔺 Maiden $130k on 24 screens (cum. $207k) ★ REVIEW |
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9 🔺 Avengers: Endgame $3.1 on 1985 screens (cum. $847.8) ★ REVIEW
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9 🔺 Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am [DOC] $81k on 48 screens (cum. $247k) |
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10 Rocketman $2.6 on 1409 screens (cum. $89) ★ REVIEW, BEST OF, PODCAST
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10 🔺 Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love [DOC] $44k on 4 screens *NEW*
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11 John Wick 3 $2.1 on 1493 screens (cum. $165.1) REVIEW, KEANU
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11 A Brother's Love $25k on 30 screens (cum. $412k)
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12 Child's Play $1.4 on 1707 screens (cum. $26.7) REVIEW
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10 The Souvenir $20k on 14 screens (cum. $997k) REVIEW ★
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numbers on that chart are pulled from boxofficemojo
WIDE
The box office finally picked up this weekend with Spider-Man Far From Home delivering on expectations and MidSommar managing the largest opening weekend of an indie yet this year. Also adding to the good news for studios was Yesterday continuing to perform well and opening well in foreign markets too. Our question is can Rocketman make it to $100 million? It's held pretty well from week to week but the theater count is dwindling and next week it'll surely get shoved off the top ten for the first time.
LIMITED
For platforming titles Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, a documentary about the famous love affair between the Norwegian mother Marianne Ihlen and the composer Leonard Cohen, had the highest per screen average but it's only at 4 theaters thus far. The Last Black Man in San Francisco is still expanding but might not make it much further given that it had its first weekend where it stopped growing along with its expansions down -3.5% this week. So if you've been dragging your feet, hurry! Meanwhile one of A24's other critical darlings The Souvenir is inching slowly towards the $1 million mark and is almost there. So a premature congratulations to them.
The Chambermaid
One movie that hasn't been getting much press attention and is just outside this chart is the Mexican drama The Chambermaid which has earned $47k in its first two weeks in the US. It won Best First Work at Mexico's Ariel Awards for the director Lila Avilés and competed with Roma in most of the big categories. (We forgot to mention the winners so we've updated the nominations article -- Roma basically swept but for losing Best Actress. The winner there was Isle Salas of The Good Girls which has not yet come to US theaters.)
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