Box Office Report For July 26-28
Welcome back one and all to the weekly box office report! As always, each and every Sunday you can expect a look at what made the most money in theaters, as well as just how all of the new releases fared. This week, the ninth film from Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, opened up, hoping to take a bite out of the second week haul of The Lion King. Throw in some holdovers and there was potential for some big numbers. How did all of the titles do, you might ask? Let us take a look right now at just that…
Repeating as champion, which was fully expected, we have The Lion King. Disney is just printing money with this new version of the animated classic. Another $75.5 million gives the juggernaut $350 million domestically to date, with plenty more to come. The Mouse will certainly keep doing these remakes when they can mint the GDP of a small country each time they make one, so look for plenty more in the years to come.
Opening at number two and demonstrating the best opening of Quentin Tarantino’s career, was Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Positioning itself as really the only tentpole summer offering aimed at adults and one of the first true Academy Award hopefuls of 2019, the movie took in an estimated $40.3 million. That’s the best for a Tarantino flick to date and suggests that it should easily end up crossing the $100 million mark in the weeks to come. Next stop? In all likelihood, is Oscar!
With those two taking up most of the oxygen, the other notable situation in the top ten was The Farewell again doing well with another expansion. The film made it to number ten with another $1.5 million or so. A24 has an independent hit on their hands, that’s for sure.
Among indie/limited release titles, Honeyland opened to just under 30K from a pair of screens, Mike Wallace is Here took in 19K or so on three screens, while For Sama made only a little over 9K on a trio of single screens as well…
Here now is what the top ten looked like at the box office for this weekend:
1. The Lion King – $75,524,000
6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – $40,350,000
3. Spider-Man: Far From Home – $12,200,000
4. Toy Story 4 – $9,872,000
5. Crawl – $4,000,000
6. Yesterday – $3,000,000
7. Aladdin – $2,788,000
8. Stuber – $1,679,000
9. Annabelle Comes Home – $1,560,000
10. The Farewell – $1,553,864
Beyond the top ten, here’s some further results at the box office:
11. The Secret Life of Pets 2 – $880,000
12. Avengers: Endgame – $824,000
13. Midsommar – $720,775
14. Rocketman – $450,000
15. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum – $440,000
16. The Art of Self-Defense – $311,317
17. Maiden – $204,858
18. Super 30 – $189,224
19. Pavarotti – $135,000
20. The Last Black Man in San Francisco – $133,800
21. Echo in the Canyon – $118,000
22. X-Men: Dark Phoenix – $104,000
23. Wild Rose – $77,800
24. Late Night – $71,515
25. Sword of Trust – $55,683
26. Anna – $41,000
27. Biggest Little Farm – $36,480
28. Honeyland – $29,999
29. David Crosby: Remember My Name – $29,396
30. Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable – $21,000
Until next weekend folks!
