A weekly look at the American box office
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): The Meg Mission: Impossible – Fallout Christopher Robin Slender Man BlacKkKlansman Turns out the people still love shark movies, as The Meg beat expectations to collect $40M this weekend. With an outsize-for-August budget of … Continue reading Box Office: August 10-12, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): Mission: Impossible – Fallout Disney’s Christopher Robin The Spy Who Dumped Me Mamma Mia 2 The Equalizer 2 Sorry there was no box office last week; I was busy. But I’m back … Continue reading Box Office: August 3 – 5, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): The Equalizer 2 Mamma Mia 2 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Ant-Man and the Wasp Incredibles 2 I’m busy (and running late) today, so I’ll piggyback on BOM’s remark that eight sequels … Continue reading Box Office: July 20 – 22, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Ant-Man and the Wasp Skyscraper Incredibles 2 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom The unexpectedly good Hotel Transylvania 3 opened to $44M at 4,200 spooOOOooky theaters in the United … Continue reading Box Office: July 13 – 15, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): Ant-Man and the Wasp Incredibles 2 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom The First Purge Sicario: Day of the Soldado You guys like superheroes, right? Ant-Man and the Wasp became the third Marvel movie in … Continue reading Box Office: July 6 – 8, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Incredibles 2 Sicario: Day of the Soldado Uncle Drew Ocean’s 8 Dinosaurs continue to rule the box office, albeit with an increasingly shaky claw-hand. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom … Continue reading Box Office – June 29 – July 1, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Incredibles 2 Ocean’s 8 Tag Deadpool 2 I’m back, sort of. The public once again turned out for the hope that a good Jurassic Park sequel was possible, although … Continue reading Box Office – June 22 – 24, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (From Box Office Mojo): Incredibles 2 Ocean’s 8 Tag Solo: A Star Wars Story Deadpool 2 With $182.6M, Incredibles 2 exceeded all expectations, opening not like a long-awaited animated sequel (cf. previous animated opening weekend champ … Continue reading Box Office: June 15-17, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo): Ocean’s 8 Solo: A Star Wars Story Deadpool 2 Hereditary Avengers: Infinity War With $41.5M, Ocean’s 8 made a little bit more this weekend than each of its main characters do, which … Continue reading Box Office: June 8 – 10, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Solo Deadpool 2 Adrift Avengers: Infinity War Book Club Solo lost 65% in its second weekend, a steep drop off a not-great opening. Deadpool 2 fared a bit better in its third, … Continue reading Box Office: June 1 – 3, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Solo Deadpool 2 Avengers: Infinity War Book Club Life of the Party Solo opened at #1, but has vastly underperformed expectations, falling $15M short of the estimated $101M target. It now seems … Continue reading Box Office: May 25 – 27, 2018
Captain Video can’t get into WordPress right now. YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) 1. Deadpool 2 2. Avengers: Infinity War 3. Book Club 4. Life of the Party 5. Breaking In WordPress is down, so I’m currently … Continue reading Box Office: May 18 – 20, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Avengers: Infinity War Life of the Party Breaking In Overboard A Quiet Place Infinity War has now made $547M domestically and topped a billion internationally, with the second-biggest all-time opening in China … Continue reading Box Office: May 11 – 13, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Avengers: Infinity War Overboard A Quiet Place I Feel Pretty Rampage I’m currently sitting next to an egg timer that will tell me when to take my pizza out of the oven … Continue reading Box Office: May 4 – 6, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Avengers: Infinity War A Quiet Place I Feel Pretty Rampage Black Panther I’m too tired and too busy to do a proper writeup, but Infinity War made staggering amounts of money, and … Continue reading Box Office: April 27 – 29, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) A Quiet Place Rampage I Feel Pretty Super Troopers 2 Truth or Dare Anecdote from attending Super Troopers 2, a movie about fuck-up Vermont Highway Patrol officers on drugs, in a Vermont … Continue reading Box Office: April 20 – 22, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Rampage A Quiet Place Truth or Dare Ready Player One Blockers People like Dwayne Johnson, people like special effects; people went to see Rampage. Despite its arcade cabinet origins, this is the … Continue reading Box Office: April 13 – 15, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) A Quiet Place Ready Player One Blockers Black Panther Tyler Perry’s Acrimony I’m doing this late, so I’ll throw it together quickly: A Quiet Place opened strong – $50M against a reported … Continue reading Box Office: April 6 – 8, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Ready Player One Tyler Perry’s Acrimony Black Panther I Can Only Imagine Pacific Rim Uprising I couldn’t find a wide-format poster for Ready Player One (opening in first) that wasn’t a ripoff … Continue reading Box Office: March 30 – April 1, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Pacific Rim Uprising Black Panther I Can Only Imagine Sherlock Gnomes Tomb Raider Black Panther was finally unseated from #1, but has overtaken The Avengers as the all-time domestic #5. Newcomer Pacific … Continue reading Box Office: March 23 – 25, 2018
YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS (from Box Office Mojo) Black Panther Tomb Raider I Can Only Imagine A Wrinkle in Time Love, Simon Black Panther has now crossed the $600M domestic mark and, perhaps more importantly, become the first film to … Continue reading Box Office: March 16 – 18, 2018
