Weekend Actuals: 36.2 M ALIEN: COVENANT | 34.7 M GOTG II | 11.7 M EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING

[John Marston]

 

1	N	Alien: Covenant	Fox	$36,160,621	-	3,761	-	$9,615	$36,160,621	$97	1
2	1	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	BV	$34,653,754	-46.9%	4,347	-	$7,972	$301,391,228	$200	3
3	N	Everything, Everything	WB	$11,727,390	-	2,801	-	$4,187	$11,727,390	$10	1
4	2	Snatched	Fox	$7,832,517	-59.9%	3,511	+10	$2,231	$33,015,117	$42	2
5	3	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword	WB	$7,152,269	-53.5%	3,702	-	$1,932	$27,503,490	$175	2
6	N	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul	Fox	$7,126,084	-	3,157	-	$2,257	$7,126,084	$22	1
7	4	The Fate of the Furious	Uni.	$3,234,040	-40.1%	2,287	-780	$1,414	$219,944,340	$250	6
8	6	The Boss Baby	Fox	$2,848,253	-36.7%	2,071	-840	$1,375	$166,200,803	-	8
9	5	Beauty and the Beast (2017)	BV	$2,545,579	-47.1%	1,792	-380	$1,421	$497,924,628	$160	10
10	7	How to be a Latin Lover	PNT	$2,051,180	-46.8%	948	-175	$2,164	$29,309,990	-	4
11	8	Lowriders	BH Tilt	$1,183,600	-50.8%	365	+70	$3,243	$4,211,985	-	2
12	11	Gifted	FoxS	$766,765	-50.3%	824	-602	$931	$22,900,823	-	7
13	13	Going in Style (2017)	WB (NL)	$600,081	-44.2%	690	-554	$870	$43,372,898	$25	7
14	12	Smurfs: The Lost Village	Sony	$572,562	-49.6%	652	-953	$878	$43,064,566	$60	7
15	18	Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer	SPC	$565,554	+47.8%	373	+220	$1,516	$2,273,140	-	6
16	9	The Circle (2017)	STX	$451,218	-74.7%	684	-1,448	$660	$20,030,002	$18	4
17	14	Born in China	BV	$371,765	-59.3%	575	-480	$647	$13,137,812	-	5
18	15	The Wall	RAtt.	$321,050	-64.2%	524	-16	$613	$1,578,770	-	2
19	31	The Lovers	A24	$274,050	+118.8%	105	+82	$2,610	$528,495	-	3
20	17	Get Out	Uni.	$245,135	-38.3%	262	-143	$936	$174,939,840	$4.5	13
21	19	The Zookeeper's Wife	Focus	$231,360	-36.8%	275	-150	$841	$16,839,076	-	8
22	23	Logan	Fox	$205,176	-27.7%	213	-92	$963	$225,885,681	$97	12
23	33	Power Rangers (2017)	LGF	$204,916	+93.6%	221	+24	$927	$85,067,486	$100	9
24	25	A Quiet Passion	MBox	$202,731	-4.6%	135	+18	$1,502	$1,081,006	-	6
25	16	The Lost City of Z	BST	$202,564	-60.1%	217	-280	$933	$8,010,429	-	6
26	22	Kong: Skull Island	WB	$201,305	-29.6%	238	-108	$846	$167,051,307	$185	11
27	35	Paris Can Wait	SPC	$188,369	+90.6%	23	+19	$8,190	$318,951	-	2
28	48	The Wedding Plan	RAtt.	$172,975	+446.4%	53	+45	$3,264	$218,969	-	2
29	29	The LEGO Batman Movie	WB	$155,339	+3.5%	202	-18	$769	$175,329,830	$80	15
30	20	Their Finest	STX	$150,709	-50.5%	160	-98	$942	$3,178,763	-	7
31	26	The Case for Christ	PFR	$91,103	-51.7%	138	-128	$660	$14,450,540	-	7
32	N	Champion	AAE	$87,100	-	31	-	$2,810	$87,100	-	1
33	21	Sleight	BH Tilt	$84,100	-71.6%	113	-251	$744	$3,847,290	$0.25	4
34	28	Unforgettable (2017)	WB	$81,680	-56.0%	176	-127	$464	$11,274,490	$12	5
35	32	Colossal	Neon	$77,785	-35.6%	105	-60	$741	$2,868,097	-	7
36	37	Hidden Figures	Fox	$55,942	-31.4%	81	-22	$691	$169,274,813	$25	22
37	34	Ghost in the Shell (2017)	Par.	$53,928	-46.9%	124	-64	$435	$40,533,014	$110	8
38	38	Life (2017)	Sony	$39,204	-44.7%	87	-38	$451	$30,180,466	$58	9
39	24	The Dinner	Orch.	$38,829	-83.4%	91	-337	$427	$1,280,517	-	3
40	51	Obit.	KL	$33,851	+69.3%	20	+10	$1,693	$129,299	-	20
41	40	CHiPs	WB	$33,384	-43.0%	41	-64	$814	$18,591,819	$25	9
42	42	This Is Not What I Expected	WGUSA	$26,478	-53.3%	12	-17	$2,207	$306,767	-	3
43	79	Like Crazy (2017)	Strand	$23,232	+489.2%	13	+9	$1,787	$37,508	-	3
44	62	Stalker (2017 re-release)	Jan.	$21,856	+129.9%	5	+4	$4,371	$73,516	-	3
45	44	Battle of Memories	CL	$21,433	-54.8%	11	-10	$1,948	$570,992	-	4
46	54	Kedi	Osci.	$18,000	+2.4%	19	-3	$947	$2,625,882	-	15
47	56	Jeremiah Tower	Orch.	$15,363	+12.5%	33	+13	$466	$163,446	-	5
48	N	Wakefield	IFC	$14,120	-	1	-	$14,120	$14,120	-	1
49	N	Abacus: Small Enough to Jail	PBS	$12,528	-	1	-	$12,528	$12,528	-	1
50	45	Risk	Neon	$12,104	-68.2%	12	-33	$1,009	$171,994	-	3
51	50	Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary	Abr.	$11,941	-47.9%	10	-6	$1,194	$222,623	-	6
52	43	Phoenix Forgotten	CLF	$11,913	-76.9%	13	-42	$916	$3,581,315	$2.8	5
53	58	Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe	FRun	$10,682	-8.9%	4	+3	$2,671	$29,335	-	2
54	53	T2: Trainspotting	TriS	$10,234	-44.4%	22	-10	$465	$2,395,410	$18	10

[aabattery]

Guardians 3-day > Alien 3-day.

 

Previews ruin the box office.

[drdungbeetle]

Just now, aabattery said:

Guardians 3-day > Alien 3-day.

 

Previews ruin the box office.

You mean the actual paying Thurs. viewers, or some sort of "free screenings" like King Arthur got?

[baumer]

3 hours ago, aabattery said:

Guardians 3-day > Alien 3-day.

 

Previews ruin the box office.

 

Naaaa....midnights have been counted towards Fridy numbers forever.  And if those people didn't see it on Thursday they would have seen it over the weekend for sure....so the number is accurate.

[aabattery]

1 minute ago, baumer said:

 

Naaaa....midnights have been counted towards Fridy numbers forever.  And if those people didn't see it on Thursday they would have seen it over the weekend for sure....so the number is accurate.

 

Don't ruin my narrative, baumer. 

[DeeCee]

GOTG2-$38,350,078

A:C-$36,160,621

 

[ChipDerby]

2 minutes ago, baumer said:

 

Naaaa....midnights have been counted towards Fridy numbers forever.  And if those people didn't see it on Thursday they would have seen it over the weekend for sure....so the number is accurate.

 

Well... I'm gonna slightly disagree on this.

 

MIDNIGHTS have always been included. But then the TDKR shooting happened and midnights stopped, and we now only have "early previews" which usually take place between 5-8pm. It would be kind of silly to separate them now, but gosh, it annoys the hell out of me.

[drdungbeetle]

Wasn't there an actual argument somewhere about free screenings decreasing King Arthur's opening though? If that somehow happened to Covenant...

[drdungbeetle]

Just now, ChipMunky said:

 

Well... I'm gonna slightly disagree on this.

 

MIDNIGHTS have always been included. But then the TDKR shooting happened and midnights stopped, and we now only have "early previews" which usually take place between 5-8pm. It would be kind of silly to separate them now, but gosh, it annoys the hell out of me.

Meh, the early previews are basically a replacement for midnights. I don't like them either (mainly because they allow bad buzz to spread and further depress Fridays for movies that suck, making the early sales argument iffier).

[DeeCee]

Damn. I was off by over $160,000 with A:C. Sorry guys. I'll try and do better next time. 

[ChipDerby]

11 minutes ago, drdungbeetle said:

Meh, the early previews are basically a replacement for midnights. I don't like them either (mainly because they allow bad buzz to spread and further depress Fridays for movies that suck, making the early sales argument iffier).

 

They're not, though. Sure, they allow a wider audience to attend, but they're taking away audience from films already in release for that evening and can pack in more showtimes.

 

The perk of a midnight showing, though, was being able to have every screen available to you.

[baumer]

3 hours ago, ChipMunky said:

 

Well... I'm gonna slightly disagree on this.

 

MIDNIGHTS have always been included. But then the TDKR shooting happened and midnights stopped, and we now only have "early previews" which usually take place between 5-8pm. It would be kind of silly to separate them now, but gosh, it annoys the hell out of me.

 

They had to adapt somehow.  

[SchumacherFTW]

Just now, baumer said:

 

They had to adapt somehow.  

Funny thing to me is that we used to have 8pm shows on a Thursday or Weds before a full release on Friday, now we get a lot of midnight shows. 

[aabattery]

I don't actually have an issue with Thursday previews, it was just annoyingly close between AC/GOTG. I was this close to glory in the summer game.

 

Woe is me.

[WrathOfHan]

Yikes @ The Wall. Would keeping it in March have made it gross more?

[Harpospoke]

9 hours ago, Cookson said:

I heard Blokamp wants to rewrite Alien 3 basically, where Alien and Aliens are still part of the timeline, but start over from there. Alien 3 and 4 would serve as a "alternate timeline" I guess.

 

Please let this be true.   I already pretend Alien 3 doesn't exist as it is.

 

9 hours ago, Cookson said:

 

The franchise definitely needs a fresh director.. hopefully Fox sees that, and has someone willing to play.

 

I'm not convinced Fox isn't part of the problem.   They could be the ones responsible for skipping ahead of the ending of Prometheus so they could get back to "Xenomorph kills another ship of scientists one by one" formula.   When I see a formula...I think "studio interference".

[Daxtreme]

Just came back from Alien, the themes explored in this movie are so fucking great! ... but then it pains me so much to see the missed opportunities at play here 

 

I mean, I liked it, but it could have been a classic if it wasn't for a few, but oh-so-big flaws. The movie definitely has something to say, it's got a voice, and splendid visuals to boot, it's a shame it doesn't work as well as it could.

 

Michael Fassbender kills it though, as usual.

 

Still, recommended, once the movie gets going, it's pretty good

[Barnack]

4 hours ago, baumer said:

 

Naaaa....midnights have been counted towards Fridy numbers forever.  And if those people didn't see it on Thursday they would have seen it over the weekend for sure....so the number is accurate.

 

Not all of them for sure (otherwise preview would be purely useless and studio would not try to make them larger and larger), but you cannot just remove them from the BO, because a lot of them would have seen it in the weekend (for some movie you have people going to the preview and going with other people like their kids during the weekend thought)

[baumer]

3 hours ago, Barnack said:

 

Not all of them for sure (otherwise preview would be purely useless and studio would not try to make them larger and larger), but you cannot just remove them from the BO, because a lot of them would have seen it in the weekend (for some movie you have people going to the preview and going with other people like their kids during the weekend thought)

 

If you have a preview number of 20 million, then maybe not everyone would see the film on the weekend if it wasn't available Thursday night, but when you have a number like 4 million, I think it's a pretty good assumption that those hardcores would see it opening weekend.

[Barnack]

7 minutes ago, baumer said:

 

If you have a preview number of 20 million, then maybe not everyone would see the film on the weekend if it wasn't available Thursday night, but when you have a number like 4 million, I think it's a pretty good assumption that those hardcores would see it opening weekend.

 

But at the very least you diminish double watch during the first weekend, but still it would be surprising that adding 7pm showing have 0 impact for a 2-10m previews, what would be the points of having them at all ?