By Ben Miller
To say studios are anxious to make room for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is an understatement. With only one new wide release (and a niche release, at that), the weekend box office looked much like it did the week before. The total box office came in under $60 million, but that is all in anticipation of an expected $150-200 million opening next weekend.
| Weekend Box Office (actuals) November 4th-6th 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it |
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| WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 ONE PIECE FILM: RED |
 TRIANGLE OF SADNESS |
| 1 BLACK ADAM $18.2 (cum. $137.1) | 1 ★ TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (sweden/uk) $425k (cum. $3) 487 screens |
| 2 🔺 ONE PIECE FILM: RED $9.3 *NEW* | 2 ★ DECISION TO LEAVE (south korea) $252k (cum. $1.2) 169 screens |
| 3 ★ TICKET TO PARADISE $8.5 (cum. $46.7) | 3 🔺★ AFTERSUN $126k (cum. $338k) 45 screens |
| 4 SMILE $3.9 (cum. $99.1) | 4 🔺 TAD AND THE LOST EXPLORER... $45k *NEW* 135 screens |
| 5 PREY FOR THE DEVIL $3.8 (cum. $13.7) | 5 🔺★ THE RETURN OF TANYA TUCKER... (doc) $35k (cum. $50k) 350 screens |
| 6 LYLE LYLE CROCODILE $3.3 (cum. $36.5) |
6 ★ RRR $10k (cum. $11.5) 1 screen |
 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN |
 RRR |
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7 🔺★ THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN $2 (cum. $3) |
7 PAUL'S PROMISE $6k (cum. $255k) 39 screens |
| 8 ★ TILL $1.8 (cum. $6.5) |
8 SALVATORE: SHOEMAKER OF DREAMS (doc) $6k *NEW* 2 screens |
| 9 HALLOWEEN ENDS $1.4 (cum. $63.4) | 9 🔺 VANDITS $5k *NEW* 3 screens |
| 10 TERRIFIER 2 $1.1 (cum. $9.7) | 10 🔺★ UTAMA $4k *NEW* 1 screen |
| 11 ★ THE WOMAN KING $906k (cum. $65.9) | 11 🔺 NEXT EXIT $3k *NEW* 8 screens |
| 12 🔺★ ARMAGEDDON TIME $792k (cum. $884k) |
12 THE RUNNER (1984) rerelease $3k (cum. $10k) 1 screen |
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13 ★ TÁR $729k (cum. $3.8) 13 movies are currently in wide release but expect less next weekend when Black Panther gobbles up all available screens |
13 ALL THAT BREATHES (doc) $3k (cum. $23k) 4 screens |
Awards hopefuls like The Banshees of Inisherin, Till, Armageddon Time, and TAR all managed decent box office, but nothing to break out of the crowded market. The big box office surprise is Smile, which is a hair under $100 million domestic and another $100 million internationally. Don't underestimate the star power of... Sosie Bacon.
Next weekend, Wakanda Forever has no other wide release competiton. That being said, Steven Spielberg's autobiographical Oscar front-runner The Fabelmans debuts in select theaters.
What did you see this weekend? I had a busy weekend with a pair of first-time watches of Terry Gilliam's Brazil and Zhang Yimou's Hero. I also caught the heartwarming documentary Oscar-hopeful Good Night Oppy.