Off blog my weekend was rough so I didn't make it to the movies. But here's to hoping you did. Nostalgia for Matt Damon's return to the Bourne franchise was greeted with enthusiam by moviegoers and what suffered as a result was nostalgia for another return over at Star Trek Beyond which took a big tumble in its second weekend. Meanwhile yet another nostalgia play (it's all about revivals these days) Ghostbusters became yet another $100 million domestic hit for Melissa McCarthy (she has six of them now) though the problem with this one is that it cost far more than her other films to make.
In other box office news: Cafe Society is about to outgross Woody Allen's last feature (Irrational Man) and it's only been out for a week; The Legend of Tarzan is now the 11th most popular film of the year (but with its hefty price tag will it get a sequel?); and if you want to see Viggo Mortensen in Captain Fantastic (which you really should because it's quite good) get to it in the next couple of days because it's per screen average didn't fare too well with this weekend's significant expansion so it's unlikely to stick around much longer; and we can maybe finally say goodbye to the Ice Age franchise on their fifth outing. Their international box office is what's been keeping the series afloat but the fifth film is significantly underperforming so cross your fingers if you're screaming "enough already" every time that once funny squirrel bounces across your movie theater screens chasing a nut in a trailer.
TOP TWENTY
๐บ01 Jason Bourne $60 NEW Review
โซ๏ธ 02 Star Trek Beyond $24 (cum. $105.7) Review
๐บ03 Bad Moms $23.4 NEW
๐ป04 Secret Life of Pets $18.2 (cum. $296.1)
๐บ05 Lights Out $10.8 (cum. $42.8)
๐บ06 Ice Age Collison Course $10.5 (cum. $42.1)
๐ป07 Ghostbusters $9.8 (cum. $106.1) Review
๐บ08 Nerve $9 NEW
๐ป09 Finding Dory $4.2 (cum. $469) Review
๐ป10 Legend of Tarzan $2.4 (cum. $121.8) Review
๐ป11 Hillary's America $2.3 (cum. $8.6)
๐บ12 Cafe Society $2.2 ($3.9) LIMITED RELEASE Review
๐ป13 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates $1.4 (cum. $43.9) Review
๐บ14 Captain Fantastic $1 (cum. $2.4) LIMITED RELEASE Review
๐ป15 Central Intelligence $910K (cum. $125.3)
๐ป16 The Infiltrator $817K (cum. $14.3) Review
๐บ17 Absolutely Fabulous $800K (cum. $3.3) LIMITED RELEASE Review, Production Design
๐ป18 Purge: Election Year $703K (cum. $78.3)
๐ป19 BFG $416K ($52.1) Review
๐ป20 Hunt for the Wilderpeople $350K (cum. $2.9) LIMITED RELEASE Review
What movies did you catch this past weekend?
Next weekend Suicide Squad opens and will surely dominate the conversation and may well feel like the end of summer movie season though there are a few weeks left of that. The really interesting contest is the following week when Florence Foster Jenkins battles both Pete's Dragon and those anthropomorphic R rated food items from Sausage Party. Tough to say which film might survive that brawl.