by Nathaniel R
Downton Abbey: A New Era didn't open half as well as its predecessor which is a pity since it's a better film and a great night out for fans. Perhaps it's true that adult audiences just aren't returning to the theaters in the way younger audiences have? Still there was one piece of good news this weekend for fans of adult-oriented movies...
| Weekend Box Office May 20th-22nd 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it |
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| WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS) | PLATFORM RELEASES |
 DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA |
 HAPPENING |
| 1 DOCTOR STRANGE IN... $32.3 (cum. $342.7) |
1 2000 MULES $765k *NEW* |
| 2 🔺★ DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA $16 *NEW* | 2 THE ROUNDUP $101k *NEW* |
| 3 THE BAD GUYS $6.1 (cum. $74.4) |
3 THE DUKE $100k (cum. $1.2) |
| 4 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 $4 (cum. $181.1) | 4 ★ PETITE MAMAN $42k (cum. $705k) |
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5 🔺 MEN $3.2 *NEW* |
5 Y COMO ES EL? $41k (cum. $1.4) |
| 6 ★ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE $3.1 (cum. $52.2) |
6 🔺★ PLEASURE $30k (cum. $52k) |
| 7 FIRESTARTER $1.9 (cum. $7) |
7 🔺 MONTANA STORY $19k (cum. $42k) LUX AETERNA $15k (cum. $35k) |
| 8 FIRESTARTER $1.9 (cum. $93.1) |
8 🔺 GOOD MOURNING $16k *NEW* |
| 9 ★ THE LOST CITY $1.5 (cum. $99.3) | 9 LUX AETERNA $15k (cum. $35k) |
| 10 ★ THE NORTHMAN $1 (cum. $33) | 10 ★ HAPPENING $10k (cum. $153k) |
The Good News: Everything Everywhere All At Once continues to have miraculous holds from week to week (off just 5% in its... 9th weekend!) and due to that it's still hanging on to theaters each week. In fact it has a better per screen average than any other wide release apart from the top two this week. It is now officially A24's top grosser domestically, having passed Uncut Gems this weekend. Globally it's still quite a ways behind Hereditary though since that Ari Aster horror film was much more popular overseas than the current sci-fi comedy whatsit has been.
Meanwhile we didn't think The Lost City would be able to hit $100 million since it moved so quickly to streaming but we were wrong. Perhaps it's continued legs in theaters (off just 11% in its 9th weekend) suggest that not that many people have Paramount+ yet in order to watch it for free.
Next week Doctor Strange will fall from its #1 perch since Tom Cruise returns in Top Gun Maverick arriving on wings of big P&A spends and rave reviews. The real question mark next weekend isnt Top Gun but The Bob's Burgers Movie. It's hilarious just like the TV show but will people come out for a movie version of a show that's still on TV? They did for The Simpsons Movie way back when but it was a much different moviegoing climate.
What have you been watching?