Watch at Home: Knives Out, Midway, System Crasher, and Monty Clift

by Nathaniel R

Do any of you buy Blu-Rays or DVDs anymore? The release dates of such used to be a big deal for film fans but now it's but another random date and everyone is on their own timetable. Nevertheless we should probably check in once in a while, shouldn't we? (New to streaming titles are also listed after the jump)

New to DVD/ Blu-Ray (Feb 3rd-25th)
If we've written about the film it's linked up...

• 21 Bridges - the Russo brothers attempt to step away from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (albeit with Black Panther himself in tow)
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - the misunderstood and underrated Mr Rogers hosted drama
• Color Out of Space - Nicolas Cage again...

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"Midway" tops the weekend while "Honey Boy" opens strong

Weekend Box Office [ESTIMATES] Nov 8th-10th 🔺 = New or Expanding / ★ = Recommended
W I D E	PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES
MIDWAY	HONEY BOY
1 🔺  MIDWAY  $17.5 *new*	1 🔺 PARASITE $2.5 on 603 screens (cum. $11.2) PODCAST ★
2 🔺 DOCTOR SLEEP $14.1 *new*	2 🔺 PAIN & GLORY $397K on 266 screens (cum. $2.6)  REVIEW, PODCAST ★
3 🔺 PLAYING WITH FIRE $12.8 *new*	3 🔺 HONEY BOY  $288k on 4 screens *new* ★
4 🔺 LAST CHRISTMAS  $11.6 *new* REVIEW	4 HOUSEFULL 4 $124k on 85 screens (cum. $2)
5 TERMINATOR DARK FATE $8.4 (cum. $85.2) PODCAST	5 LINDA RONSTADT... $43k on 59 screens (cum. $4) REVIEW

In a not quite as usual as you'd expect occurence all four new wide releases, were lined up 1-2-3-4 with no interruption from holdovers at the top of the box office. None of them really lit the box office on fire but Roland Emmerich's latest action epic did decent business up top. For platform titles, the big story was Honey Boy's surprisingly robust debut, earning $75k per theater despite being a very personal film and niche topic. A strong opening was by no means a sure thing so well done Shia Labeouf and Amazon!

Meanwhile Parasite continues to be all the rage (it's a rare foreign-language film that hits 8 figures in the US marketplace) while Pain & Glory is a steady performer. Jojo Rabbit expanded very well with a nearly $5,000 per screen average as it moved into just-barely wide release at 802 theaters with a $4 million or so weekend; all three of those titles are moving confidently into awards season. What did you see this weekend?