by Nathaniel R
With no major competition, the action flick Bullet Train (reviewed) easily won the weekend but the results were mixed. $30 million is a good opening but is it good for this sort of film? That's debatable. Brad Pitt titles sometimes develop good legs so the second weekend hold (or lack thereof) will tell us more...
| Weekend Box Office August 5th-7th 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it |
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| WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS) | PLATFORM RELEASES |
 BULLET TRAIN |
 BODIES BODIES BODIES |
| 1 🔺 BULLET TRAIN $30 *NEW* |
1 MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON $345k (cum. $4.9) |
| 2 DC SUPER PETS $11 (cum. $44.9) |
2 🔺 BODIES BODIES BODIES $226k *NEW* |
| 3 ★ NOPE $8.5 (cum. $97.9) |
3 HANSAN: RISING DRAGON (South Korea) $144k (cum. $432k) |
| 4 THOR: LOVE & THUNDER $7.7 (cum. $316.1) |
4 ★ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE $138k (cum. $69.5) |
| 5 MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU $7.1 (cum. $334.5) |
5 HALLEJULAH LEONARD COHEN... (Doc) $111k (cum. $486k) |
| 6 ★ TOP GUN MAVERICK $7 (cum. $662.4) |
6 ★ FIRE OF LOVE (Doc) $81k (cum. $711k) |
| 7 WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING $5.6 (cum. $64.6) | 7 I LOVE MY DAD $54K *NEW* |
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8🔺 EASTER SUNDAY $5.4 *NEW* |
8 ★ A LOVE SONG $20k ($41k) |
| 9 ★ ELVIS $3.9 (cum. $136.4) |
9 ★🔺 SHARP STICK $19k (41k) |
| 10 THE BLACKPHONE $1.5 (cum. $85.9) |
10 FIRE (France) $15k ($149k) |
| 11 JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION $1.1 (cum. $371.8) |
11 ★ RESURRECTION $15k (cum. $140k) |
| 12 VENGEANCE $725k (cum. $3.2) |
12 ★ MY OLD SCHOOL $12k (cum. $35k) |
WIDE RELEASE NOTES
The Jo Koy starring Filipino-American comedy Easter Sunday had a fairly low profile, but took in $5 million in its first week. It was relatively cheap to produce though so if it develops any legs it might be a hit. As hard as it is to believe, Variety says this is the only major studio comedy released this summer. Studo comedies used to be big draws.
If you don't adjust for inflation Top Gun Maverick just passed Titanic to become the 7th highest grosser ever. The next films in its sites are Avengers: Infinity War (another $16 million so it could get there) and Black Panther (another $38 million so that seems far less likely). Just how long is this going to stay in the top ten. It's already at 11 weeks!
LIMITED RELEASE NOTES
A24's latest horror picture Bodies Bodies Bodies opened on just six screens but had the highest per screen average for any movie so we'll see how it does next week when it presumably adds theaters.
We really thought Marcel the Shell was going wide but just as it was *almost* there, it lost steam on per screen averages and lost a bunch of theaters. Still it's approaching $5 million to date which is good!
NEXT WEEKEND
The Diane Keaton comedy Mack & Rita, the stuck-on-a-hightower thriller Fall, and the anime picture Inu-Oh of which more in the next paragraph, the Finnish movie Girl Picture, and Aubrey Plaza as Emily the Criminal all enter theaters but Bullet Train this week was the last "big studio" picture of the summer; the majors are still failing to deliver new movies to theaters on a weekly basis.
What did you see these past few days?
At home we watched The Sandman on Netflix. In theaters we dutifully saw Bullet Train (always there for Brad Pitt, for better and worse) but also hit the East Coast premiere of GKids latest Japanese acquisition Inu-Oh which is wildly creative and mesmerizing. Neverthless it won't be an easy sell with Academy Awards voters despite the clear opening in the Animated Feature Race given that so many of the big US titles (thus far at least) have underwhelmed either qualitatively or in terms of public enthusiasm.