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Tuesday
Aug012023

What did you see this past weekend?

by Nathaniel R

Since I'd already seen Barbenheimer, I opted for a repertory screening (Under the Tuscan Sun, which I'd actually never seen. Why isn't Diane Lane in more things these days?), a play (Let's Call Her Patty starring Rhea Perlman, suddenly busy again considering she's also in Barbie), and a TV season I've always meant to watch (Happy Valley season 1. All of you who raved about it several years ago were correct). Over lunch on Saturday, I ran into two friends who were on their way to see Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One which surprised me since neither of them had seen Barbie or Oppenheimer

Were you part of the moviegoing throngs that hit Barbie or Oppenheimer in their strong second weekends or did you opt to catch an older film, a different wide release, or did you hit the arthouse theater? 

Weekend Box Office
July 28-30
πŸ”Ί = new or expanding /  β˜… = Recommended 

WIDE (Over 600 Screens) LIMITED / PLATFORM 
DISNEY'S THE HAUNTED MANSION THE FIRST SLAM DUNK

β˜… BARBIE $93 (cum. $351.4) 4,337 screens

1 πŸ”Ί THE FIRST SLAM DUNK (Japan, anime) $645k *NEW* 581 screens 

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Monday
Jul242023

Box Office: Two SmashHits Temporarily Reinvigorate Movie Theaters

by Nathaniel R

By now even people who don't pay attention to the movies (a depressing large amount of people) know that this weekend was historic. Barbenheimer broke all kinds of records and in just three days rescued the overall numbers of this summer.  People seemed genuinely thrilled to be at the movies this past weekend, didn't they? At least they did in NYC where we witnessed the pink-clad mania. Oppenheimer viewers were harder to spot --no color uniting them -- but they were also out in droves as both movies had enormous, even historic weekends. So much for Hollywood's recent-history belief that you shouldn't open big movies opposite each other. Competition used to be the norm but it's been rare in recent years...

Weekend Box Office
July 21-23
πŸ”Ί = new or expanding /  β˜… = Recommended 

WIDE (Over 600 Screens) LIMITED / PLATFORM 
BARBIE THEATER CAMP

1πŸ”Ίβ˜… BARBIE $162 *NEW* 4243 screens  

1 β˜… PAST LIVES $563k (cum. $10) 629 screens  

2 πŸ”Ίβ˜… OPPENHEIMER  $82.4 *NEW* 3610 screens

2 πŸ”Ίβ˜… THEATER CAMP $280k (cum. $687k) 51 screens

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Monday
Jul242023

Barbenheimer - Ten Great Box Office Showdowns

by Christopher James

This is the summer of "Barbenheimer". What started as a rivalry has morphed into a marketable double feature. In a way, they’ve hyped each other up, making this past weekend (July 21st-July 23rd) the most exciting and anticipated movie weekend of the summer. Both movies exist at opposite poles of the gendered film divide to a comical degree - the hot pink colored Barbie against king of the film-bros Christopher Nolan and his three hour 70mm extravaganza, Oppenheimer. The ultimate winner is the audience, who get two big-budget auteur-driven swings in one weekend. (Barbie won but both movies had huge opening weekends which will talk about tonight when the actuals come in)

This isn’t the only time counterprogramming has pitted a “boy movie” and “girl movie” against each other for a star-studded showdown. Here are our top 10 box office showdowns that served as fabulous precursors for Barbenheimer...

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Wednesday
Jul192023

Box Office: Mission Impossible, Theater Camp, and more

By Nathaniel R

Tom Cruise is an eternal draw at the box office but Mission Impossible still came in under expectations. Was it that clumsy "Part One" in the title (on the SIXTH film in a franchise no less)? Movies are starting to move away from this since the audience can often feel had as in 'my ticket doesn't get me the full movie?' Note that Spider-Verse dropped it's "part one" title before release even though it literally ends on a cliffhanger... 

Weekend Box Office
July 14th-16th
πŸ”Ί = new or expanding /  β˜… = Recommended 

WIDE (Over 700 Screens) LIMITED / PLATFORM 
DEAD RECKONING PT 1 THE MIRACLE CLUB

1πŸ”Ί MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -DEAD RECKONING PART ONE $54.6 *NEW* (cum. $78.4) 4,327 screens    

1 πŸ”Ί THE MIRACLE CLUB $664k *NEW* 678 screens 

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Tuesday
Jul042023

Did you see 'The Dial of Destiny' or pass? 

By Nathaniel R

The box office prelude to a mid-week Fourth of July (today) rested on Indiana Jones's 5th outing but he didn't truly deliver in The Dial of Destiny, a sequel that few people outside of Hollywood's money-obsessed board rooms  were asking for. Hollywood is discovering that it can't live on franchises alone. Problem is that's become Hollywood's ONLY strategy and all they've been investing in for some time now. Unfortunately for those of us who love the cinematic experience audience  increasingly lukewarm or chilly response to the big franchises isn't really morphinng into interest pointed at other moviegoing options. Hollywood has been training people to only care about franchises for years and now that they've "won", we're all losing!

Weekend Box Office
(estimates? actuals? it's always a little fuzzy around holidays)
June 30th - July 2nd 
πŸ”Ί = new or expanding /  β˜… = Recommended 

WIDE (Over 800 Screens) LIMITED / PLATFORM 
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY EVERY BODY

1 πŸ”Ί INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY $60.3 *NEW* 4600 screens  

1 πŸ”Ί EVERY BODY [doc] $150k *NEW* 255 screens 

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