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Monday
Feb102020

Did you see any movies over Oscar weekend?

This past weekend's box office results suggest that a lot of people were trying to catch up on Oscar nominees before the big show. Here are all the titles still in wide release and their counterparts in limited release...

Weekend Box Office
February 7th-9th (ESTIMATES)
🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = recommended
WIDE RELEASE (800+ screens)
PLATFORM TITLES
Margot Robbie in "Birds of Prey" Oscar WINNING Short Film "Hair Love"
1 🔺 BIRDS OF PREY  $33 *NEW* REVIEW
1 🔺 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS $870k on 535  screens (cum. $2.7) REVIEW,  THE CHARTS 
BAD BOYS FOR LIFE  $12 (cum. $166.3) 2 THE LAST FULL MEASURE $214k on 617 screens (cum. $2.5)
3 1917 $9.2 (cum. $132.7) THE ACTING, DRY EPIC,  CONTINUOUS SHOT, WWI AT THE OSCARS ★ 3 WEATHERING WITH YOU $136k on 106 screens (cum. $7.5) REVIEW  ★ 
4 DOLITTLE $6.5 (cum. $63.8) THIS ODD FRANCHISE 4 🔺 THE ASSISTANT  $117k on 25 screens (cum. $220k) REVIEW 
5 JUMANJI THE NEXT LEVEL $5.5 (cum. $298.4) 5 🔺 THE LODGE $76k on 6 screens *NEW* REVIEW
"Little Women" crossed $100 million! Elijah Wood says "Come to Daddy"
6 THE GENTLEMEN $4.2 (cum. $26.8) 
6 🔺 COME TO DADDY $61k on 29 screens *NEW* REVIEW 
7 GRETEL & HANSEL $3.5 (cum. $11.6) THE MAN STANDING NEXT $57k on 22 screens (cum. $113k)
8 LITTLE WOMEN $2.3 (cum. $102.7) REVIEWBEST PICTUREPODCAST  ★ 8 🔺 PAIN AND GLORY $57k on 118 screens (cum. $4.5)  REVIEWNATHANIEL'S TOP TENGOYA AWARDS ★ 
9  STAR WARS RISE OF SKYWALKER $2.3 (cum. $510.6)  VISUAL FXREVIEWOSCAR HISTORY 9  THE SONG OF NAMES $56k on 78 screens (cum. $924k)
10 KNIVES OUT $2.2 (cum. $158.8) REVIEWWHODUNNITSANA DE ARMAS ★  10 COLOR OUT OF SPACE $55k on 54 screens (cum. $677k)
"Parasite" now our BEST PICTURE WINNER DO NOT MISS "And Then We Danced"
11 PARASITE $1.5 (cum. $35.5) ARCHITECTURE, OSCAR NITE, NATHANIEL'S TOP TENCLASSBONG ★ 
11 🔺  CREATED EQUAL CLARENCE THOMAS... $52k on 40 screens (cum. $157k) 
12 JOJO RABBIT $1.5 (cum. $30.2) PODCAST, IN DEFENSE OF... 12 🔺  THE TRAITOR $40k on 17 screens (cum. $74k) REVIEW
13 JUST MERCY $1.5 (cum. $33.3)   13  PANGA $37k on 37 screens (cum. $572k) 
14 THE TURNING $1.4 (cum. $14.1)   14 🔺  INCITEMENT $28k on 9 screens (cum. $56k)
15 FROZEN 2 $1.3 (cum. $474.3) REVIEW  , BEST SONG?   15 🔺  LES MISERABLES $22k on 38 screens (cum. $316k)  INTERVIEWOSCAR NOMINEEREVIEW ★
16 THE RHYTHM SECTION $1.0 (cum. $4.9)  16  CITIZEN K $16k on 15 screens (cum. $94k) 
17 SPIES IN DISGUISE $995k (cum. $64.9)   17 🔺  HONEYLAND $14k on 16 screens (cum. $789k) REVIEW  
18 🔺 UNCUT GEMS $652k (cum. $49.2) REVIEW 18 🔺  AND THEN WE DANCED $13k on 2 screens *NEW*

 

Of note...

Knives Out got a greenlight for a sequel and bounced back a bit at the box office (for what's been a very popular run)

Sadly among new arthouse titles two brilliant pictures are being ignored. Russia's Oscar submission Beanpole an emotionally brutally drama about two women trying to build a life together post World War II and Sweden's Oscar submission And Then We Danced, about gay male dancers in homophobic Georgia both got lost in the shuffle somewhat these past two weekends. That's what happens when prestige stuff tries to open right around the Oscars without a nomination and on very few screens. Nevertheless we hope both can stick around for a few more weeks and win some new deserved fans.

This next week/weekend should be interesting. Will Parasite expand again given its Best Picture win? Will 1917 continue to hold as astonishingly well as it's been holding from week to week with audiences despite the Oscar loss? Parasite is currently on around a thousand screens but there are three new wide releases opening Friday  (The Photograph, Fantasy Island, and Sonic the Hedgehog) and another 7 new limited releases so there might not be availability for another expansion. That said we expect most of the Oscar losers to close the doors on their theatrical runs in the next two wekends since the ones not named 1917, Little Women, and Parasite were just about out of steam anyway. 

 

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Reader Comments (14)

None of next week's new releases sound appealing. Parasite should easily break top 10.

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered CommenterTom G.

I'm hoping to take my mom to see Parasite as she's interested in the film as she does like Asian films.

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered Commenterthevoid99

And Then We Danced. I died. I'm dead. Gone Girl. Go see it. Bye!

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered CommenterPeggy Sue

And Then We Danced is really good. If it's in your town, go check it out.

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered CommenterCharlieG

It is a really beautiful movie, Peggy.

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered CommenterLew

The Two Popes, which I liked more than expected, although it dragged in the middle. Pryce was exceptional and deserving of the nomination.

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered CommenterJJM

Bye Peggy Sue, don’t rush back now ya hear!

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered CommenterRosamind

You will never have her wit, Rosamind

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered CommenterPike

I saw “Birds of Prey”.

It’s a fun movie that’s making a lot of money. It isn’t “underperforming”. Somebody set an arbitrary bar, and the only thing they can find to criticize is “Yeah, well, you SHOULD have been making MORE money”.

Trying to categorize it as a flop is so odd. “Underperforming” is something like “Cats”, which I saw in the theatres (and laughed all the way through Rebel Wilson and James Corden’s Oscar presentation).

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered Commenteradri

And I will be going to see “The Photograph” when it opens this week.

I adore director Stella Meghie.
She has an unerring sense of what is actually interesting and meaningful in a situation, that it is just revelatory. You suddenly come alert watching her movies.

Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield together in a romantic movie? Yes! Why has no-one thought of that before?

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered Commenteradri

Watched Harriet on an airplane (enjoyed it but wanted to love it - overall I'd give it a solid B). On the flight home watched Parasite for the 2nd time - and remember thinking, God I hope it pulls off an upset tonight. And it did! So that made me super happy.

February 11, 2020 | Unregistered CommenterRob

Birds of Prey needs some more love. I saw it on Saturday and I loved it so I’m gonna see it again this week. It’s still making a lot of money but it definitely needed to be advertised more.

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