HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY y'all. Are you taking your mom to the movies? Does your mom even go to movies? (My mom does not unless I'm visiting her so it happens about once a year).
In its second week Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 dipped below 50% but that's par for the course for blockbusters which are super frontloaded now. It still handily took the weekend making more than the two new wide releases combined (Snatched and King Arthur). In limited release the top new films were Lowriders (starring Demian Bichir and Eva Longoria) with a good per screen average and the sniper drama The Wall which risked a nearly wide opening to uncertain results. We'll see how word of mouth goes.
| Weekend Box Office (Date) |
| W I D E |
L I M I T E D |
 |
 |
1. GUARDIANS VOL. 2 $63
(cum. $246.1) REVIEW |
1. 🔺 LOWRIDERS $2.4 NEW
(295 screens) |
2.🔺 SNATCHED $17.5 NEW
REVIEW |
2. BAAHUBALI 2 $1.5 (374 screens)
(cum. $18.9) |
3.🔺 KING ARTHUR $14.7 NEW
REVIEW |
3. 🔺 THE WALL $891k NEW
(541 screens) |
4. FATE OF FURIOUS $5.3
(cum. $215) FRANCHISE RANK |
4. NORMAN $409k (153 screens)
(cum. $1.6) |
5. BOSS BABY $4.6
(cum. $162.3) REVIEW |
5. THEIR FINEST $290k
(258 screens | cum. $2.9) |
6. BEAUTY & THE BEAST $3.8
(cum. $493.1) REVIEW | SCORE |
6. SLEIGHT $285k (364 screens)
(cum. $3.6) |
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 |
7. HOW TO BE A LATIN LOVER
$3.7 (cum. $26.1) |
7. THE DINNER $245k (429 screens)
(cum. $1.1) |
8. THE CIRCLE $1.7
(cum. $18.9) REVIEW |
8. 🔺 A QUIET PASSION $199k
(116 screens | cum. $766k) |
9. GIFTED $1.3
(cum. $21.4) |
9. 🔺 THE LOVERS $140k (23 screens)
(cum. $229k) REVIEW |
10. SMURFS: LOST VILLAGE $1.1
(cum. $42.1) |
10. COLOSSAL $115k (160 screens)
(cum. $2.7) REVIEW |
11. GOING IN STYLE $1.0
(cum. $42.3) |
11.🔺 PARIS CAN WAIT $101k NEW
(4 screens) |
12. BORN IN CHINA $820k
(cum. $12.3) |
12. 🔺 CHUCK $79k (39 screens)
(cum. $121k) REVIEW |
🔺 = new or added screens
numbers from box office mojo |
The Lovers and Chuck, two Tribeca debuts which went immediately to theaters last weekend after the festival, charted after adding theaters this weekend. Check out the reviews in case you missed 'em linked in the chart above.
What did you see this weekend?
Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 6:30PM 
It was a battle for box office dominance in outer space as Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 and Aliens Volume 6 (shut up) faced off. The champion was those nasty acid-blooded face huggers rather than the comic bro huggers. Not that Drax and Starlord have anything to worry about having just crossed the $300 million mark domestically.